How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address | David Bergman -- ALL ACCESS -- sports, concert, and music photographer
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/

Huge pano of Obama's inauguration

"My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes." I think the photography aspect is more interesting than the Obama aspect. The level of zoomable detail is amazing!

biblioteca de peliculas, documentales, on-line

National Film Board of Canada >> shorts

Thinking Things from Snaith Primary

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Hi Res picture from above

Worldwide shots capture reaction to the inauguration of Barack Obama

amazing. can't believe i was there.

capas de obama

Yes, the Whitehouse now has a blog.

Yes, the White House has a blog. It started up the day of the inauguration.

The official blog from the White House.

Amazing panorama of the U.S. president giving his inauguration speech (try viewing full-screen on a 30" monitor!)

Pictures of atomic weapons, good greeble reference.

Hall of shame...if they have any.

The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind the slump, Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis

... and six more who saw it coming

Final Presidential photos of Bush. HAGKYD

Errol Morris spricht mit Agenturjournalisten über Bush-Fotos

The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson Reuters. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way. (The photos are reproduced here with their original captions, unedited.)

Errol Morris writes, "The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services -- AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson Reuters. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services -- Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) -- to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures -- of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way."

Photographs of George W. Bush and what their meaning to Errol Morris and other photojournalists.

photos of George Bush

Iconic pictures of Bush from various photographers framed differently

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Tuesday, as delivered.

Finfin animasjon som viser Internett utviklinga frå 1957 til 2009. Forenkla sjølvsagt, men fin. Litt komplisert ordbruk innimellom, men det må ein vel rekne med.

Yawn! Cool animation though.

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

filmpjes op internet

Funny Sheeit

Sarah Palin Charges: If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasn’t quite stupid enough. Palin’s unending emissions of baffling, evasive incoherence should have disqualified her for any position that involved a desk, let alone placing her one erratic heartbeat from the presidency. The press strained mightily to feign respect for her, praising a debate performance that involved no debate, calling her a “great speaker” when her only speech was primarily a litany of insults to city-dwellers, echoing bogus sexism charges when a male Palin would have been boiled alive for the Couric interview alone, and lionizing her as she used her baby as a Pro-life stage prop before crowds who cooed when they should have been hurling polonium-tipped javelins. In the end, Palin had the beneficial effect of splitting her party betwe...

wow! is this the first wave of barack obama criticism? note: i don't know who 3/5ths of the people on this list are, but for everyone else, this tells it like it is. some very choice words.

documents interns, fotos...en què s'explica el procés de creació de la sèrie Dr. Who (ara molt popular)

"Explore the origins of a TV legend with this collection of documents and images. It's now the number one family favourite, but 'Doctor Who' had a difficult birth, emerging from the imagination of some of BBC Drama's top minds. Here, we tell the story of the creation of 'Doctor Who' from the very beginning, starting with a report on the possibility of making science fiction for television and leading up to the moment a new drama series is announced in the pages of 'Radio Times'."

online art history resource (with podcasts/videos)

In what sounds like the plot of a John Carpenter film, the Daily Telegraph reports that a village in Brazil might be populated by genetically altered twins created by notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. .. "For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them blond haired and blue eyed," we read. "But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering medical treatment to the women of the town."

The Boys from Brazil!

So, that's the reason. I wonder how many other experiments all those expat doctors conducted around here (and I mean *here*, as in I live a few Km from a known nazidoctor dwelling).

"Nobody knows for sure exactly what date Mengele arrived in Candido Godoi, but the first twins were born in 1963, the year in which we first hear reports of his presence," he said.

In a new book, Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, the Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa, a specialist in the post-war Nazi flight to South America, has painstakingly pieced together the Nazi doctor's mysterious later years. After speaking to the townspeople of Candido Godoi, he is convinced that Mengele continued his genetic experiments with twins – with startling results. He reveals how, after working with cattle farmers in Argentina to increase their stock, Mengele fled the country after fellow Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, was kidnapped by Israeli agents. He claims that Mengele found refuge in the German enclave of Colonias Unidas, Paraguay, and from there, in 1963, began to make regular trips to another predominantly German community just over the border in Brazil – the farming community of Candido Godoi.

Modern Streets with WWII War Scenes

Merged photos of WWII-era and modern day St. Leninsburg.

Students could do their own version using local photos: brings in historical concepts, imaginative writing, image manipulation, copyright, version control

“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”

Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day's newspaper. Well, it's not ...

good article

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. The public is now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints from the use of fossil fuels is going to lead to climatic calamities.

Sailing, around the world - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and

Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself.

Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco.

Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. The company had just contributed a major chunk of code to Rails 1.0 and had just shipped Odeo Studio, but we were facing tremendous competition from Apple and other heavyweights. Our board was not feeling optimistic, and we were forced to reinvent ourselves.

L'histoire du projet twttr qui est devenu ce que l'on sait. Je me souviens l'avoir découvert via Tara Hunt & Factory Joe lors d'un SxSW festival en 2007.

Turns out newspapers didn't know how to make money on the Web in 1981, either.

Local TV news report of an experiment by newspapers in delivering content by modem. File under foreshadowing.

Imagine if you will waking up in the morning and turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper. Just imagine....

Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.

the future sure looks bright.

The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner are made available online via CompuServe.

newspapers on computers

A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.

Evolution of Search

A look at the History, Vision, Innovators, and Future of Information Accessibility

Really nice discussion of the history of the ebook market.

A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.

CNN에서

Like a lot of people, I grew up on Sesame Street and the Muppets. But did you ever stop to wonder where they came from?

Some of the characters we know and love were recycled from other TV shows and commercials Jim Henson worked on, while others were invented by using whatever materials were around. Be prepared for a little nostalgia, and I hope I didn't leave out your favorite -- not all of the characters have interesting background stories (sorry, Big Bird).

Animal

Some of the characters we know and love were recycled from other TV shows and commercials Jim Henson worked on,

4 mr.hoffer students ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is obama's speech in words & in video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! d:-P

The text of Obama's inaugural speech

We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism. After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys? Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example.

Congressional reports made public...

The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to the financial collapse. Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices. The CRS is Congress's analytical agency and has a budget in excess of $100M per year.

Did you know that creativity is Man's Work?

Frightening look into the future of a social collapse in the US (and by extension other western countries) based on the experiences of the Russian collapse.

save

Hmmm. Trying not to panic.

twitter history

Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey (@jack), who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz).

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document. Part I

The business and culture of our digital lives, from the L.A. Times

The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. 1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past.

Welcome to the official 1911 Census website

The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. 1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past. Search through the census index to find an ancestor, or to find out who lived in your house.

1901 census

Top 25 days in computing history

Sehr interessante Abhandlung über die Mechanik des Spiels „Pac Man“.

This web page is dedicated to providing Pac-Man players of all skill levels with the most complete and detailed study of the game possible. New discoveries found during the research for this page in December 2008 have allowed for the clearest view yet of the actual ghost behavior and pathfinding logic used by the game.

[everything you may not know about PacMan]

"In the mid-'80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits. Their methods for minting money worked brilliantly... until one of them devastated the global economy."

long form documentary on the financial crisis. Audio editing/narrative is strong

And how DOS builders added secret support to make it more like unix.

SWITCHAR

Why \ was used for paths in DOS.

The reason why DOS (and subsequently Windows) went with the backslash character to convey path information, instead of UNIX's forward-slash.

Why is there a "\" key on the keyboard in the first place? As far as I know, they aren't used in English grammar, and to this day, most common users don't know which is "back" and which is "forward."

Thanks Reddit! If you've ever wondered why all the paths on Windows machines are wrong, why the escape character on Windows is "^" and so on, please read this little piece.

'Oldest English words' identified

Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.

Some of the oldest words in the English and other Indo-European languages have been identified, scientists believe.Reading University researchers say "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the oldest in use and date back as much as 40,000 years.

Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down. She was just trying to create a supercheap laptop.

Get product reviews and news about digital cameras, computers, laptops, mp3 players, iPod, PDAs, phones, PCs, Macs and wireless from Wired.com

Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down. She was just trying to create a supercheap laptop. In 2005, Jepsen, a pioneering LCD screen designer, was tapped to lead the development of the machine that would become known as One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte, the longtime MIT Media Lab visionary, launched the project hoping to create an inexpensive computer for children in developing countries. It would have Wi-Fi, a color screen, and a full keyboard—and sell for about $100. At that price, third-world governments could buy millions and hand them out freely in rural villages. Plus, it had to be small, incredibly rugged, and able to run on minimal power. "Half of the world's children have no regular access to electricity," Jepsen points out.

internet time

In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.

Talks Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

"Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves."

UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Google Mapで、「消滅の危機にある言語」の使用地域が見られるページ （UNESCO website）

"This revelation, that Stone Age hunter-gatherers could have built something like Gobekli, is worldchanging, for it shows that the old hunter-gatherer life, in this region of Turkey, was far more advanced than we ever conceived - almost unbelievably sophisticated."

:O

Archaeologists worldwide are in rare agreement on the site's importance. 'Gobekli Tepe changes everything,' says Ian Hodder, at Stanford University.

For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'. The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone. The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel, the shepherd resolved to inform someone of his finds when he got back to the village. Maybe the stones were important.

reviews of every beatles song, from worst to best. i really like this.

Beatles

185 Beatles Songs, in order, from worst to best.

The full text of Barack Obama's speech on his inauguration as US president.

Very long transcript of Bruce Sterling's talk at Webstock but well worth the effort.

We've got a web built on top of a collapsed economy. THAT's the black hole at the center of the solar system now. There's gonna be a Transition Web. Your economic system collapses: Eastern Europe, Russia, the Transition Economy, that bracing experience is for everybody now. Except it's not Communism transitioning toward capitalism. It's the whole world into transition toward something we don't even have proper words for.

A short illustrated essay written by Maira Kalman for NewYorkTimes.com.

Maira Kalman

Visuals are the best.

Watch this video at home on depression cooking --http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

Have a video site with clips to compliment your cook book recipies. Perhaps interviews/cooking instructions from the variety of people who contribute recipes?

Cooking we can use - poorman's feast

Global map of Eastern Telegraph Co. network in 1901

Undersea telegraph cables, 1901

The year 2000, as depicted by a french illustrator in the year 1910

Inaugural Days Events

Obama, Biden, both Clintons, both Bushes, Cheney, Palin, Gore, Carter, Pelosi, Huckabee, McCain, Giuliani and Blagojevich (plus a few more in linked updates...)

اگر به جای عکسی مستطیل قرمز دیدید لطف مخابرات را جبران کنید

The Godfather Wars In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster. After violent disputes over the casting of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, they tangled with the real-life Mob, which didn’t want the movie made at all. The author recalls how the clash of Hollywood sharks, Mafia kingpins, and cinematic geniuses shaped a Hollywood masterpiece. Plus: Video, more photos, and the late-breaking story of how a Jersey family mentored the cast.

The author recalls how the clash of Hollywood sharks, Mafia kingpins, and cinematic geniuses shaped a Hollywood masterpiece.

An intensive research effort over the last nine years has led to the decoding of much of the almost-obliterated Greek text. The results were more revolutionary than anyone had expected. The researchers have discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized.

To read.

"....The researchers have discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized."

Network Programming

This paper explains the design architecture, implementation, and some of the lessons learned creating the multiplayer (networking) code for the Age of Empires 1 & 2 games; and discusses the current and future networking approaches used by Ensemble Studios in its game engines.

A little late, but wonderful nonetheless.

Preparations for the inauguration ceremony tomorrow for the 44th President of the United States of America have been taking place for months now. Security, transportation, logistics, sanitation, everything you can think of to accomodate the predicted millions of attendees.

great pictures

This half-meter resolution image of the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. was collected by the GeoEye-1 satellite on Jan. 20, 2009 to commemorate the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken through high, wispy white clouds, shows the masses of people attending the Inaugural Celebration. (click to download)

"Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy." It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren't perfect. This comedian's routine on the Conan O'Brien show is funny, mocking our ingratitude. I post it here because the rant is a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress. Enjoy:

at The Technium

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comedian Louis C.K. on conan o'brian talking about how people take our amazing technology for granted.

"Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy." It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren't perfect. This comedian's routine on the Conan O'Brien show is funny, mocking our ingratitude. I post it here because the rant is a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress.

Fantastic 4 minute skit. And very, very true.

Wow. Yeah, y'know. That's true.

Florian Kaps on a mission.

Love this.

Yay!

Here's the website of the Monarchy in Britain

My fascination with the British Monarchy continues to grow as my stay in the UK lengthens

Nearly two years ago I filmed the first episode of what was to become “Great Depression Cooking with Clara”. At the time the episode was intended to help me remember how Clara created the meals I had enjoyed eating over the years. I wasn’t sure if I could capture the magic of her storytelling and the details of the cooking at the same time (there are no second takes with Clara, if she did it once she doesn’t feel the need to do it again).

Documentary photography of New York City, from 1885 to 1958.

Fotos, edificios, vida cotidiana de NY

An interactive inquiry about why America hasn't been attacked again. By Timothy NoahUpdated Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, at 8:59 AM ET

This is the first in a series of eight essays exploring why the United States suffered no follow-up terror attacks after 9/11.

fantastic photo clips

네덜란드 국립기록원

Amazing collection we can all learn from - Nationaal Archief's Photostream

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907888.stm slowdeathofhandwriting handwritinghandwriting

the art of handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript.

Pictures from an underground city built circa 1400 BCE. The map is amazing.

In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), demolishing a wall of his house-cave, discovered astonished that behind the same was a mysterious room that never had seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one… By chance the underground city of Derinkuyu was shortage, whose first level could be excavated by hititas around year 1400 a.C.

Derinyuku es una de las ciudades subterráneas antiguas más fascinantes que se han encontrado hasta ahora, una autentica ciudad bajo tierra.

oldest lolcat

funny lolcat

This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we’ve seen.

Webdesignerdepot.com is actually great. This is a sick article. Bravo.

Rassegna di tutte le interfacce utente da l 1973 al 2009. In pratica, la storia dell'informatica!

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way. Over the years a range of GUI's have

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

A good epitaph for the newspaper, by Clay Shirky. Now if only Elsevier would go bankrupt too.

Journalism has always been subsidized. Sometimes it's been Wal-Mart and the kid with the bike. Sometimes it's been Richard Mellon Scaife. Increasingly, it's you and me, donating our time. The list of models that are obviously working today, like Consumer Reports and NPR, like ProPublica and WikiLeaks, can't be expanded to cover any general case, but then nothing is going to cover the general case.

Oh, newspapers, please stick around. The revolution of the printing press was only, what, a few decades ago?

funny ww2 comic

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125-page transcript from a week-long 1978 story conference between Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan, where they hashed out Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Monday, March 09, 2009 The “Raiders” Story Conference Hey, guys, you’re going to love this (and thanks, Viktor). There is a link now available to download the 125-page transcript (in the form of a .pdf document) of the original 1978 story conference between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan for a little film called Raiders of the Lost Ark.

JG: "Speaking of George Lucas, here’s an amazing find by Mystery Man on Film: a 125-page transcript from a week-long 1978 story conference between Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan, where they hashed out Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Sure, there's a 125 page document on the interwebs now that transcribes the meetings that Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan had to plan out Raiders of the Lost Ark, but even better is this post chock-full of analysis (with examples) of that document, finding principles of storytelling, screenwriting, and collaboration. "7) No idea is a bad idea when you’re brainstorming. These guys were all over the place with ideas and there’s nothing wrong with that. As I mentioned earlier, many of the ideas discussed, like the plane crash sequence and mine cart chase, were used in the second film. So what helped determine which sequence should be kept and thrown away? Redundancies in concept. You already had a chase scene here, so why have another one here? Let’s come up with something different. You know? That kind of thing."

"There is a 125-page transcript of the original 1978 story conference between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan for a little film called Raiders of the Lost Ark. There were about 10 Screenwriting Lessons I took away from this experience and thought they might be worth sharing."

"So then they go back to figure out when and how you can setup the snake joke in the opening sequence. A lot of screenwriting is backtracking, of setups and payoffs."

Man-oh-man, Spielberg and Lucas were idea machines. They could’ve sat there coming up with Indiana Smith ideas forever. There were enough ideas generated in these meetings for two films, which they actually used for two films. I must say, it’s rather unusual to have meetings with a producer and a director and be given so many ideas. Not that meetings with producers and directors wouldn’t have a lot of ideas but I’m not sure you would encounter such a volume as this. For screenwriters, it’s a goldmine. If you try to forget the finished film and put yourself into Kasdan’s shoes and you have all these ideas thrown at you, it can be a daunting task. What do you keep? What do you throw away? How do you make all this work?

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There are dozens of interesting projects being spearheaded by very smart people, some of them nonprofits, some for-profit. But they are seedlings.

Johnson argues that journalism in the future will look a lot like how technology and politics are covered now because those two topics are the "old growth forests of the web", i.e. they've been covered long enough on the web that old media has had time to adjust, react, and in many cases, go out of business in the face of that coverage.

"That’s why the ecosystem of technology news is so crucial. It is the old-growth forest of the web. It is the sub-genre of news that has had the longest time to evolve. The Web doesn’t have some kind intrinsic aptitude for covering technology better than other fields. It just has an intrinsic tendency to cover technology first, because the first people that used the web were far more interested in technology than they were in, say, school board meetings or the NFL."

(These are absolutely wonderful!)

10 Mar 09 / NYT interactive map of immigration & foreign born in US, 1880 to 2000, by time, county, group.

fine info-graphic

Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

US Medical History Pictures

Archive of military medical photos.

fotos de uma múmia congelada em alta resolução

Fotografia do Ötzi.

A full site of scanned images from the iceman mummy

Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film

Through the ruins of Detroit..

Could this be more depressing? The once-beautiful Detroit, formerly the economic engine of a nation, is a ghost.

Maybe it's all I've been reading about the collapse of the classic Maya lately, but this seriously gives me the creeps.

Biblioteca de premsa històrica espanyola

Se trata de una Biblioteca virtual de prensa histórica española, promovida por el Ministerio de Cultura y las Comunidades Autónomas. Así, podemos consultar ejemplares raros y únicos de periódicos y revistas digitalizados de mucha antigüedad

hemeroteca historica de prensa

Nice silverlight zooming effect!!!

Wow!

Every single issue of Playboy from it's start to 2007.

picture tour of Chernobyl ruins

We start not far from the remains of a tiny village. The village was destroyed, and then buried under orders from the soviets for being too radioactive. It was buried out of the Soviets desire to cover up the accident more than anything else. Ironically, the name of the village translated to English is called 'Diggers'..

A log of websites with real character.

"We take bridges for granted now, but back in the 1800s, bridges were in beta. They fell. One out of every four bridges… fell""We Are Defined By What We Build The Brooklyn Bridge was built from 1870 until 1883."

Rands posts a nice optimistic counter to current economic gloom, citing the Brooklyn Bridge and other 19th century NYC architecture.

History of the Brooklyn Bridge

Truly inspiring

We need a new version of ourselves and that’s going to involve bright, unexpected ideas from those we least expect them from, and they’re going to strike you as impossible. All you need to do to understand these terrifyingly ambitious ideas is to look back at what we’ve already done to understand what we can do.

So heres my trip to Chernobyl in pictures. The trip was booked with http://www.tourchernobyl.com. I just emailed info@tourkiev.com, and got in touch with the guy who runs the whole place, Sergei. Really, really helpful guy who talked me through the whole process and answered numerous dumbass emails i sent him. You can book everything through them, from the flights (cost me about 500 euro) to hotel (160 euro for 2 nights), to a pickup at the airport and dropoff when leaving ($40 each).

Discuss anything and everything gaming related here.

"Oh, look. Here's the jerk who wrote the code that broke everything. A confession."

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Life. An excellent place to see your world in pictures.

The world's best photographs for free

nice idea (accountability? no!)

Holding the experts to account

matt simmons "We are three, six, maybe nine months away from an [oil] price shock." - 2009-03-26 268 days open barton biggs the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may rally between 30 percent and 50 percent from the 12-year low reached on March 9 - 2009-03-23 355 days open

Fantastic new site that lists and tracks predictions of the future made by public figures and purported experts.

By Christopher Hitchens

What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis by Christopher Hitchens

Classic Arcade Sounds

Someone having the idea of recording audio at arcades is pretty rad, but having the tapes survive from as far back as 1982 is even better. I could sit all day and listen to this. Some people listen to whale sounds to relax and focus, arcade background noise does it for me apparently. Someone needs to do this for pinball machines.

Website für Sound Stocks

via http://www.my-os.net/blog/

The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view.

The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view. The book sold a little less than 10,000 copies and is now out of print. The copy published here is almost identical to my original manuscript and does not contain Prima's edits. In this version, I have corrected two factual errors, fixed five typos, deleted a few pages at the end, and added a final paragraph. I welcome links to this site, however, I ask that you not reproduce this manuscript other than for your personal reading without written permission. If you prefer reading a PDF version, click here. I hope you enjoy the book. Thanks for stopping by.

awesome painter - working on a serious of herself having sex with every us president amazing concept :)

Artists paints herself having sex with all the US presidents.

the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. Then came the point he could not get out of his mind: while the unaffiliated have historically been concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, the report said, "this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified." As Mohler saw it, the historic foundation of America's religious culture was cracking.

The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.

Well written and interesting American culture study.

If it's too good to be true...

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports

Excellent Article on Dubai: "Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history."

Excellent statement about how images of people in the past are almost unable to be tainted.

Justine Lai was born in San Francisco and raised in Sacramento, California. She currently lives and works in San Francisco. I was introduced to her Join Or Die series. I like her work.

Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, we are the steward of millions of recordings dating from the earliest Edison films to the present. In addition, we sponsor events, lectures and concerts that are free and open to the public. More about the Library: http://www.loc.gov/about

Library of Congress

Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004). Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.

From Kottke

View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates

Here are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates. From marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more.

Here are a few of their best stories—for the record:

More social media resources from Mashable:

Mashable article by Jennifer Van Grove.

Status update'ens historie og lidt om hvad fremtiden kan byde på

1基の7.62mm機関銃が非武装の人間にどれほどの脅威か、この記事の記者が知らないはずはないだろう

Johann Hari on the motivations behind the Somali pirates.

There's a lot more to understand about Somalia... http://tinyurl.com/cfrrpf (via @Xtal)

True? Somali "pirates" are defending illegal fishing

Changing attitudes towards work.

v swissmiss

Preciso ler assim que tiver tempo

Eric Hobsbawm: Whatever ideological logo we adopt, the shift from free market to public action needs to be bigger than politicians grasp

"Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left."

This is a unique story about Columbine that was basically the start of a new era and gave kids idea about killing that the shouldnt have

The real story?

A lot of detailed in a way that i am used to using due to age>

I like the layout of the website

good pictures and very informative like the outline

Just did not appeal to me.

More in-depth/comprehensive for when searching for particular aspect/info.

I liked the charts they provided, but found the site dull over all.

More color and information

Easier reading

good info but leary of credibility

Info from here is good but can be corrupt

A great deal of information. Good pictures.

Anyone can put information on Wikipedia.

Informative and a good variety of information.

Good to remember

Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room trailing a guard as if the guy were his personal assistant. The other convicts in this eastern Belgian prison turn to look. Notarbartolo nods and smiles faintly, the laugh lines crinkling around his blue eyes. Though he's an inmate and wears the requisite white prisoner jacket, Notarbartolo radiates a sunny Italian charm. A silver Rolex peeks out from under his cuff, and a vertical strip of white soul patch drops down from his lower lip like an exclamation mark.

Pretty amazing account of a diamond heist in Antwerp. I imagine that various Hollywood types are scrabbling for the rights to produce "Notarbartolo's Five" even as I type this...

Leuk verhaal over grote 3Oceans 11" achtige kluisbraak in Antwerp Diamond Centre

"If you love [Comic Sans], you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby." Seriously.

Retour sur la font la plus haïe de tous les temps.

"If you love it, you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby."

the story behind Comic Sans...

The ubiquitous, bubbly typeface has spawned a Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.

I've never been a fan of Comic Sans, and used to cringe when my friend James would use it for research papers in graduate school. For that kind of work, I'll go with Palatino in LaTeX.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Opened in April 2009

Biblioteca digital mundial :: UNESCO

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

Historical humor

Mary Seacole

Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

Stonehenge in Georgia

Fascinating, thanks Pam!

The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern.

Music Online - American History In Video

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

to read

How Rich Countries Die

This is a book report on The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, by Mancur Olson. There isn’t a whole lot about how nations pulled themselves out of their medieval stagnation (see A Farewell to Alms for that), so a better title for this still-in-print book from 1982 would be “How Rich Countries Die.”

Congratulations! You've just outlived some interesting people. Tell us your date of birth, and we'll tell you who they were.

ages 9 and up

How to make a passport

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

Sammlung digitalisierter historischer Dokumente

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Das Digitalisierungsprojekt der UNESCO hat Material aus einer Vielzahl renommierter Bibliotheken, Schriftensammlungen und Archiven aus der ganzen Welt versammelt. "Das kollektive Gedächtnis der Menschheit bewahren und das interkulturelle Verständnis fördern" ist das Ziel dieses Projekts

What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space.

Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian Job) in a tiny Fiat 600, which screamed in protest as they bounced across one cobbled piazza after another at top speed. The Fiat was loaded with dozens of iron pipes and aluminium sheets which poked out of windows and were strapped to the roof. The car screeched to a halt outside the city’s tallest block of flats. Grabbing their assorted pipes, along with a large toolbox, the two brothers ran up the stairs to the rooftop. Moments later, the city’s silence was rudely broken once more as they set to work: a concerto of hammering, clattering, sawing and shouting. Suddenly, an angry voice rang out; the man who lived on the floor below leant out of the window and screamed: “Will you stop that racket, I’m trying to sleep!” One of the young me

What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space. FT233 Midnight, 19 May 1961.

read the actual torture memos

Torture memos 1

Top secret documents released by ACLU proving the US torutred

The impression I formed of the M.B.A. experience was that it involved taking two years out of your life and going deeply into debt, all for the sake of learning how to keep a straight face while using phrases like “out-of-the-box thinking,” “win-win situation,” and “core competencies.”

Taylorism vs. Mayoism: Both management theories fail.

Most of management theory is inane, writes Mathew Stewart, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead. [Atlantic Magazine, June 2006]

This was on the del.icio.us Popular Booksmarks list. I've only read the first paragraph, but I am finding myself inclined to agree with the general thrust of this article. To be read in full later.

Author of mortgage backed security software.

http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=My+Manhattan+Project&expire=&urlID=35003522&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2F55687%2F&partnerID=73272--- manhanttan ManhattanProject

My Manhattan Project How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty. I do, somewhat, and it nags at me. When I put it out of mind, it inevitably resurfaces, like a shipwreck at low tide. It’s been eight years since I compiled a program, but the last one lived on, becoming the industry standard that seeded itself into every investment bank in the world.

Wolfram Alpha,

As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters.

Los Angeles Times article about the history of SMS text messaging

Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became Hillebrand's magic number -- and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging. "This is perfectly sufficient," he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. "Perfectly sufficient." The communications researcher and a dozen others had been laying out the plans to standardize a technology that would allow cellphones to transmit and display text messages. Because of tight bandwidth constraints of the wireless networks at the time -- which were mostly used for car phones -- each message would have to be as short as possible. Before his typewriter

aditya: Why 160 characters for an SMS? — http://tinyurl.com/cjwh7x

Quá! Eu sabia que tinha que ter um alemão entediado envolvido...

Let’s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk? An elegant solution, designed and patented in 1901 by the German engineer A.A. Newman, is called the “watchclock”. It’s an ingenious mechanical device, slung over the shoulder like a canteen and powered by a simple wind-up spring mechanism. It precisely tracks and records a night watchman’s position in both space and time for the duration of every evening. It also generates a detailed, permanent, and verifiable record of each night’s patrol.

"But the watchclock is another kind of interaction design, one whose function corrals the user into a single, linear, constrained sort of behavior. The night watchman has a fundamental social constraint — the desire to not get fired from their job. This constraint allows the watchclock patrol system to work so effectively (some would say insidiously) as an interaction design instrument of control."

"How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries...actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor & stairwell? How do you know he is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk? If you’re a technology designer, you might suggest using surveillance cameras or even GPS to track his location each night, right? But let’s make this interesting...go...back...[to]1900. What could you possibly do in 1900 to be absolutely sure a night watchman was making his full patrol? An elegant solution, designed and patented in 1901 by the German engineer A.A. Newman, is called the “watchclock”. It’s an ingenious mechanical device, slung over the shoulder like a canteen and powered by a simple wind-up spring mechanism. It precisely tracks and records a night watchman’s position in both space and time for the duration of every evening. It also generates a detailed, permanent & verifiable record of each night’s patrol."

Let’s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk?

これはすごい！世界史好きだったので、時々読みに来よう！

高校世界史授業を誌上公開。脱線話も含め、可能な限り再現。古代史、中世史、近代史、東洋史、西洋史。生徒達に世界史を語ります。歴史の面白さ、楽しさを、伝えることが出来れば幸いです。

An interactive view of the all the memes that swept across the internet and burrowed in our zeitgeist. Built from Wikipedia and Memelabs, open for you to add and maintain.

Timeline of internet memes

Dancing Baby, Susan Boyle, etc.

JG: "Big picture essay by Steven Frank on the state of UI metaphors:"

discussion on the difficulties of changing the concept of the desktop metaphor, from Scott

"Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place."

Very funny article, especially if you're a programmer or developer.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Hilarious!

Europe history photography Abandoned information Archive russia ukraine blog photos 2009 chernobyl nuclear documentary pripyat ussr community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces

Haunting images of the literal fallout from Chernobyl.

FOTOS SENSACIONAIS de lugares abandonados na ucrania

ironische/sarcastische citaten van Mark Twain

jQuery audio player

holy shit

Information about artifical itelligence

read later

Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since 1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent. The editor professed great admiration for Orwell's "absolute straightforwardness, his honesty and his decency", and would be his patron throughout the 1940s. The closeness of their friendship is crucial to the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ith, an everyman for his times, continues to resonate for readers whose fears for the future are very different from those of an English writer in the mid-1940s.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the city of Detroit developed rapidly thanks to the automobile industry. Until the 50's, its population rose to almost 2 million people. Detroit was the 4th most important city in the United States. It was the dazzling symbol of the American Dream City with its monumental skyscrapers and fancy neighborhoods. Increasing of segregation and deindustrialization caused violent riots in 1967. The white middle-class exodus from the city accelerated and the suburbs grew. Firms and factories began to close or move to lower-wage states. Slowly, but inexorably downtown high-rise buildings emptied. Since the 50's, "Motor City" lost more than half of its population. Nowadays, its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great civilization. Many thanks to : Daniel & Silke Seybold, Guillaume Amiot, Frédéric Champion, Lowell Boileau, ...

衝撃　かつてモーターシティとして輝いたデトロイトが　日本も他人ごとじゃないよ（←時流に乗った発言）

"Nowadays, its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great civilization."

photos of Detroit's modern ruins. Breath-taking

a little tour through the history of information - or more specifically where to focus efforts if you want get in touch with other people.

brilliant visualization of media habits

olden days mac os for the iphone, looks sweet

classic case of "stuff white people like"

Welcome to the MacOS iPhone Project! We are Dedicated to putting MacOS on the iPhone.

A photo collection of emergency currency issued by towns in Germany.

My wife's grandfather collected thousands of bills produced by the different towns and companies to make front to deflation first and inflation later and provide certain stability to workers and residents."Notgeld" (emergency currency) was provided by cities, boroughs, or even private companies while there was a shortage of official coins and bills.

on the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.” This mixing o

Nice overview of Donald Rumsfeld.

donald rumsfeld

Find the latest in men's fashion, men's clothing, news, gear, entertainment, travel and trends, gadget buying guides, grooming advice and style forums.

"Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they’re saying? It isn’t pretty"

Excellent profile of Donald Rumsfeld, who, it turns out, pandered to Bush's religiosity by including old testament citations on his defense intelligence reports from Iraq. Yikes.

Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they’re saying? It isn’t pretty

web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history and project planning

Uncovering our earliest ancestor. How the discovery of Ida, a 47 million year old fossil, is rewriting our history.

A major documentary film on Ida and her place in our history.

Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor How the discovery of Ida, a 47 million year old fossil, is rewriting our history

One of the most significant scientific discoveries in recent memory!

Cell Phone design 1983 to 2009

Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function. From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so

Even before the rise of YouTube as a central hub for video, we’ve been obsessed as a culture with sharing funny and amazing videos with our friends. While most videos get a couple views and fade into the background, a select few not only gain tens of millions of views, but make a lasting impact on culture as well. These videos quickly become Internet memes that nobody can ever seem to stop talking about.

The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism. Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide. Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism—and not just Wikipedia but wikiness at large.

The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.

Amazing interactive display about ancient Egypt

Nicely animated site focused on Egyptian Mummies.

schöne seite vom musée de la civilisation zur aktuellen ausstellung über mumien

Una interesante interfaz del Museo de la Civilización de Quebec Canadá basada en una experiencia de navegación en 3D. Tiene además una propuesta educativa y lúdica con participación del usuario.

WoodTypeMuseum

wood type museum

2 funny. and 2 true.

OMG. Even I was duly shocked

Politically incorrect classic ads

funny advert posters

Horrifying: LYSOL DOUCHING.

Orwell v. Huxley

Or both right or both wrong.

Le pire étant de se rendre compte qu'ils ont tous deux raison...

huxley 2 orwell 1

RT @jamespage: So you think there's been progress in GUIs since 1981 http://tinyurl.com/d2wkeo [from http://twitter.com/LoXD/statuses/1478953507]

Fotos do OS Xerox Star 8010

Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981)

Amazing resource of Xerox GUI

cool TED organized by a teacher for me in terms of subject matter. How nice!

The title of this post is not meant as an insult! It’s just that so many of us (educators) are clearly impressed with the brilliance exhibited in the TED Talks, but have trouble sorting through all of the material to discover something appropriate

Lakshmi Pratury

I haven't read this yet

Wes Anderson, Salinger, The Royal Tenenbaums - the inpirations.

This is the first in a five-part series of video essays analyzing the key influences on Wes Anderson’s style. Part 2 covers Martin Scorsese, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols. Part 3 covers Hal Ashby. Part 4 covers J.D. Salinger. Part 5 is an annotated version of the prologue to The Royal Tenenbaums.

Good examples of photojournalism. These photographs are pretty amazing.

A year ago, I wrote a magnum opus three-part post that attempted to chronicle some of the underlying changes happening in the economy and how this would impact ...

读写网对当前经济及其对互联网的影响，以及互联网的发展进行了归纳和展望

"A year ago, I wrote a magnum opus three-part post that attempted to chronicle some of the underlying changes happening in the economy and how this would impact web technology ventures. "Useful, but too long" was a recurring comment. So, here is a one-year update, much shorter. And hopefully a bit clearer, seeing as we are further into this transition."

Closed social-network sites cannot survive in their current form, and yet they are so dominant today. So the transition to open and pervasive will be a big and messy fight... which will be great fun for journalists to cover! - is this another way of saying there will be one big network? Advertising: Advertisers will adopt a barbell approach: CPM for branding, and CPA for direct-revenue generation (as soon as publishers figure out how to make money selling CPA). CPC will still be dominated by Google but will become less dominant as CPA gains traction. Google will play in CPA and CPM but won't dominate as it does in CPC. Publishers will sideline CPA because nobody will be able to compete with the CPC price set by Google

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Amsterdam - New York henryhudson400.com

This site was created to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's legendary voyage for the Dutch to the Hudson River and New York. The unique character of New York City, originally New Amsterdam, has been shaped by the legacy of the multiethnic and tolerant culture of 17th century Amsterdam. Besides celebrating the historic event with a series of special events in 2009, Henry Hudson 400 will promote future ties between these two great cities which are linked by their shared belief in the value of free, diverse, and entrepreneurial societies.

Henry Hudson 400 New York and Amsterdam were created in 2006 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's legendary voyage for the Dutch to the Hudson River and New York. The unique character of New York City, originally New Amsterdam, has been shaped by the legacy of the multiethnic and tolerant culture of 17th century Amsterdam. Besides celebrating the historic event with a series of special events in 2009, Henry Hudson 400 will promote future ties between these two great cities which are linked by their shared belief in the value of free, diverse, and entrepreneurial societies. (photo credit: View of New Amsterdam, Johannes Vingboons, around 1665, Nationaal Archief - National Archives of the Netherlands)

Henry Hudson 400 has taken a selection of rare maps and documents, and in collaboration with Google, overlaid them onto contemporary Google maps of the same areas. The site features 32 historical maps of the 17th-century Dutch trading empire and New Amsterdam. Users will find planning and survey maps of New York City and Amsterdam, historical world maps and illustrations, and charts tracing Hudson’s four voyages (1607–11) to the New World. Each of the maps and charts has a paragraph describing its origins and importance. The maps tell the story of 17th-century exploration and the history of the early Dutch settlement of New York. On Hudson’s third voyage (1609), ice storms near the North Pole forced a U-turn that led the explorer and the crew on his boat, the Half Moon, to drop anchor along “Manna hata,” or “Land of the Hills,” which led to the first Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. The overlay of the historic maps over Google allows users to follow Hudson on each of his journeys.

These beautiful historical maps, overlaid on Google contemporary maps of the same areas, will be part of a spectacular Rare Maps exhibition on the early history of New York, opening at the South St. Seaport Museum (NY) in September 2009. This date marks 400 years since captain Henry Hudson dropped anchor near what the natives called Manna Hata, or ‘Land of the Hills’.

(google) map vergelijking oud-nieuw New York

This is a Google maps mash up with historical maps overlays - of the sort you could previously only do in Google Earth. I'm not sure how they did this or if teachers can replicate it, but this is a great history resource in and of itself.

Not sure exactly what lesson tie-in I can use this for in a unit, but saving it anyway.

As the tanks neared the Beijing Hotel, the lone young man walked toward the middle of the avenue waving his jacket and shopping bag to stop the tanks. I kept shooting in anticipation of what I felt was his certain doom. But to my amazement, the lead tank stopped, then tried to move around him. But the young man cut it off again. Finally, the PSB (Public Security Bureau) grabbed him and ran away with him. Stuart and I looked at each other somewhat in disbelief at what we had just seen and photographed. I think his action captured peoples’ hearts everywhere, and when the moment came, his character defined the moment, rather than the moment defining him. He made the image. I was just one of the photographers. And I felt honored to be there.

Social media isn't really new. While it has only recently become part of mainstream culture and the business world, people have been using digital media for

Actually kicks some serious ass. Starts with phone phreaking.

The interdisciplinary nature of TED (a direction I’d like to see education go in general) would allow many of these clips to cross several of my categories, so it may be useful for you to scan the lists of other disciplines. Enjoy!

Cool history website.

Great list of resources to teach history. Includes links to ted talks videos.

"Neat Graph"

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

For the "some things never change" file.

They forgot the 2 Aug 82 "Scarlet H" Herpes cover (but, then, Reason would, wouldn't it?) http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19820802,00.html

From William Randolph Hearst's ginned up hysterical stories about marijuana to the "10-cent plague" comic book scare of the 1950s to The New York Times warning of "cocaine-crazed Negroes" raping white women across the Southern countryside, the media has always whipped up anxiety and increased readership via thinly sourced exposes of the next great threat to the American way of life.

As a service to future historians of the long, slow death of the newsweekly, Reason offers this Top 10 list of the most horrifying, silly, irresponsible, or downright ridiculous Time cover panics from the past 40 years.

"...no publication has done a better (by which we mean worse) job of scaring the crap out of post-baby boomer America than Time.." 10. June 19, 1972: The Occult Revival \ 9. April 5, 1976: The Porno Plague \ 8. August 6, 1984: The Population Curse \ 7. September 15, 1986: Drugs: The Enemy Within \ 6. May 7, 1990: Dirty Words \ 5. May 13, 1991: Crack Kids \ 4. July 3, 1995: Cyberporn: On a Screen Near You \ 3. Nov 22, 1999: Pokemon! \ 2. March 19, 2001: The Columbine Effect \ 1. June 7, 2004: Overcoming Obesity in America \

"This was preserved because the author had been Emperor. How much ancient wisdom was lost because the common Roman citizen lacked TCP/IP?"

"[by 1700 bc, the minoans were trading with spain, had big cities with flush toilets, a written language, and moderately sophisticated metalworking technology. had it not been for the eruption of thera (on santorini), it is quite possible that romans would have watched the assassination of julius caesar on television.]"

'This article, prepared to support a talk at Wordcamp 2009, discusses how writing itself has changed because of the availability of the Web and the Weblog.'

Here is an early intro to a cool tool that will show you what is in the news on a timeline basis

can put in specific dates; timeline search for swineflu ..visual search

Uses HTML and CSS to determine your browsing history. Slowish but effective.

This is a method of sniffing your browsing history without using Javascript. If you haven't cleaned your browsing history recently, just click "Start Scan" and the system will get to work. If this doesn't shock you, it should: websites are not supposed to see this information. It has potential for anyone, in particular advertisers, to view your history and profile you.

Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but some awfully strange substances have been used for pharmaceutical purposes in the past -- and some might argue, continue to be used today. Here are some vintage advertisements touting items that we might balk at taking today.

Eye-opening. Great graphics.

referência de embalagens antigas

12 historiallista valokuvaa, jotka voivat olla järkyttäviäkin.

flashy! fonty! browser resize-y! Great info and interactivity. From Emory U.

Search British Newspapers from 1800-1900. Many with free content

Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers

Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things

Ron Gilbert plays the original Monkey Island for the first time in 15 years and shares his thoughts.

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I don't spend my evenings playing through Monkey Island. It's probably been 15 years since I sat down and really played it. Much like the experience of watching the Maniac Mansion Speed Run, it bought back a lot of memories and little tid-bits of facts, so I started keeping notes and in celebration of all things Monkey Island, I thought I'd share them

The Making of Monkey Island, by creator Ron Gilbert

Robert Kaplan reviews and posits theories of geographical determinism in international relations. Some cool theories here. "The wisdom of geographical determinism endures across the chasm of a century because it recognizes that the most profound struggles of humanity are not about ideas but about control over territory, specifically the heartland and rimlands of Eurasia. Of course, ideas matter, and they span geography. And yet there is a certain geographic logic to where certain ideas take hold. Communist Eastern Europe, Mongolia, China, and North Korea were all contiguous to the great land power of the Soviet Union. Classic fascism was a predominantly European affair. And liberalism nurtured its deepest roots in the United States and Great Britain, essentially island nations and sea powers both. Such determinism is easy to hate but hard to dismiss. "

oh, I must find and read that MacKinder article. What a hypothesis! fabulously heady stuff.

Robert Kaplan on the return of geography.

We all must learn to think like Victorians. That is what must guide and inform our newly rediscovered realism. Geographical determinists must be seated at the same honored table as liberal humanists, thereby merging the analogies of Vietnam and Munich. Embracing the dictates and limitations of geography will be especially hard for Americans, who like to think that no constraint, natural or otherwise, applies to them. But denying the facts of geography only invites disasters that, in turn, make us victims of geography. Better, instead, to look hard at the map for ingenious ways to stretch the limits it imposes, which will make any support for liberal principles in the world far more effective. Amid the revenge of geography, that is the essence of realism and the crux of wise policymaking—working near the edge of what is possible, without slipping into the precipice.

How Geography Determines Human Conflict in the World

People and ideas influence events, but geography largely determines them, now more than ever. To understand the coming struggles, it’s time to dust off the Victorian thinkers who knew the physical world best. A journalist who has covered the ends of the Earth offers a guide to the relief map—and a primer on the next phase of conflict. By Robert D. Kaplan

Maira Kalman of the N.Y. Times "And the Pursuit of Happiness" delivers a kind of art essay on the law and the court system. Hard to explain, but looks very cool.

Really interesting presentation of an interview with justice of the Supreme Court of the US and inspiration for feminism (and everyone, I believe)

Awesome illustrations re: the supreme court and women in US history

"And then I meet Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I think, move over Jane Austen as my imaginary Best Friend Forever."

My favorite part of this chart is that they call the 00's the "Noughties".

From air steward uniforms to Corn Flakes cereal boxes...how has everyday design evolved over the last half-century?

I imagine you've seen this already, but on the off chance you haven't . . . bosh!

1880-1922

Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922.

Article sobre beneficis dels estudis clàssics :)

Resulta que Tim O'rEilly estudió Clásicas.

"I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. "The control of the appetites by right reason," is how he defined it. My brother James once brilliantly reframed this as "Virtue is knowing what you really want," and then building the intellectual and moral muscle to go after it."

Porqué hay 60 minutos en una hora.

Superbe visite de la maison de Thmas Jefferson

Nice story of Thomas Jefferson/Montecello by Maira Kalman

Thomas Jefferson

beautiful and a little sad. hand-drawn and -written essay about thomas jefferson and ach wie flüchtig.

Join us for a webcast about Web Squared on Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time with John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly.

"we’ll get to the Internet of Things via a hodgepodge of sensor data contributing, bottom-up, to machine-learning applications that gradually make more and more sense of the data that is handed to them. ... As the information shadows become thicker, more substantial, the need for explicit metadata diminishes. Our cameras, our microphones, are becoming the eyes and ears of the Web, our motion sensors, proximity sensors its proprioception, GPS its sense of location. Indeed, the baby is growing up. We are meeting the Internet, and it is us"; "evidence shows that formal systems for adding a priori meaning to digital data are actually less powerful than informal systems that extract that meaning by feature recognition"; "There are many who worry about the dehumanizing effect of technology. We share that worry, but also see the counter-trend, that communication binds us together, gives us shared context, and ultimately shared identity"

artists illustrations from a visit to Monticello

an important piece on Thomas Jefferson

a visit to Thomas Jefferson's residence

One artist blogs about the impact visiting Monticello had on her and her impressions of Jefferson.

A 13-year-old tries out a Walkman for a week.

via Cedric, hilarious! I remember my sister's first Walkman back in 1982 and mine in 1984.

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.

Awesome review of an original Sony Walkman by a 13 year old kid.

A kid who's never used a Walkman takes one for a spin.

This one's all over teh internets today. I guess I'm not the only 30/40something parent having these conversations with their kids when they pull out the walkman / rotary phone / record player / original Game Boy / other outdated technology from the last 30 years.

The one about douches is seriously disturbing if you enlarge it to read the whole thing.

Among professional aviators, there's a well-worn saying: Flying is simply hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. And yet, I don't recall too many periods of boredom during my 30-year career with Lockheed, most of which was spent as a test pilot.

"My aircraft disintegrated around me at Mach3, 78,000ft" (hat tip to Dan Kuper for the link)

Vanity Fair

An in-depth (and, may I say, quite scary) portrait of Sarah Palin

Article on Sarah Palin that is ridiculous

Future Past: 173 Radical Retrofuturistic Directions in Design & Technology

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now. The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them.

Sweet

Access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images

75,000 free pictures, mostly Art

http://worldimages.sjsu.edu

Presented entirely unironically, but these are hilarious (random caps make everything funnier, obviously). I especially like #2: When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered.

This is the collest thing ever !!

Intereactive web site recreating the Apollo 11 mission.

Relive in real time

Anil Dash has an excellent piece about Google, about the potential differences in how the company (or those with in the company) see themselves and how those outside see the company. This is not one of those "Google is really evil" posts, but more a thoughtful commentary about how a now huge company can avoid becoming like every other huge tech company.

RT @timoreilly RT @anildash:Google has reached its "Microsoft moment" and is the last to realize: http://bit.ly/msmoment Interesting stuff [from http://twitter.com/theholodeck/statuses/2602344061]

History, the C family of languages

How many do you recognize?

Remembering Apollo 11

Fotos impresionantes...

NASA High Definition Video: Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video

Fanlore is a multi-authored website that any fan can easily contribute to. We want to record both the history and current state of our fan communities - fan works, fan activities, fan terminology, individual fans and fannish-related events.

Welcome to the Fanlore wiki! Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.

Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.

The purpose of this project is to provide a computer simulation of the onboard guidance computers used in the Apollo Program's lunar missions, and to generally allow you to learn about these guidance computers.

Virtual AGC is a computer model of the AGC. It does not try to mimic the superficial behavioral characteristics of the AGC, but rather to model the AGC's inner workings. The result is a computer model of the AGC which is itself capable of executing the original Apollo software on (for example) a desktop PC. In computer terms, Virtual AGC is an emulator.

kod źródłowy Apollo 11 :)

Some of the Apollo source code.

Database of soldiers who fought in wars during the Medieval era, including the Hundred Years War. Not sure how to use this just yet...

A team led by Dr. Adrian Bell and Prof. Anne Curry, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, have put up a stunning new database of military service records of medieval soldiers serving from 1369 and 1453: While the database’s primary purpose seems to be exploring the lives of individual soldiers of note, There are great many potential applications for large observation (large-n) quantitative studies of conflict and health. Variables in the database include: First Name, Last Name, Status, Rank, Captain’s Name, Commander’s Name, Year of Service, Nature of Activity, Reference Number, and Membrane. Read the project details for more information.

#12 Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.

From GeekDad | Wired.com

memories of times past t hough much of this we still know around here

"GeekDad Parents, Kids and the Stuff We Obsess About 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About * By Nathan Barry Email Author * July 22, 2009 | * 8:00 am | * Categories: Armchair Geek * There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks. That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …"

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

Next stop: Cholula!

Amazindly, the list misses China!!!

Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, became fruitful, and multiplied. Decades, centuries and millennia passed while war, climate change and human migration all took their toll. Relatively few ancient cities have managed to survive the test of time. Here are 10 that have not only survived, but continue to thrive.

The oldest thriving cities, travel-porn pics.

smouldering

According to the protagonist in Kurt Vonnegut's "Timequake": "...The world's second unsucessful attempt to commit suicide."

This is truly amazing.

terse yet comprehensive AND humourous

A collection of screen shots and captured images of movie title stills from classic and recent feature films and trailers

Lesson plans using the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and music.

Turned up on oursignal.com ...

A digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.

advertising

free vintage ad video archive!

Moore's Law is one of the few Moira threads we've teased out in our short history in the technium. There must be others. Most of the technium's predetermined developments remain hidden, not yet uncovered, by tools not yet invented. But we've learned to look for them. Searching, we can see similar laws peeking out now. These "laws" are reflexes of the technium that kick in regardless of the social climate. They too will spawn progress, and inspire new powers and new desires as they unroll in ordered sequence. Perhaps these self-governing dynamics will appear in genetics, or in pharmaceuticals, or in cognition. Once a dynamic like Moore's Law is launched and made visible, the fuels of finance, competition, and markets will push the law to its limits and keep it riding along that curve until it has consumed its physical potential.

Topic for discussion in AP

Steven Pinker on how violence has declined over history.

Interesting, somewhat counterintuitive hypothesis here - mankind has been getting steadily LESS violent since pre-historic times - and a bunch of theories as to why.

Steven Pinker explains why he thinks humans have evolved to be more peaceful over time.

A page with evidence to the contrary tat the founding fathers were as Christian or as intent on impressing Christian values into the Constitution and the newly created American government.

One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded". However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is a lie. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists who did not believe the bible was true.

The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity.

Some of them may have been deists at best, but most of them abhorred religion and everything it entails.

DocumentaryHeaven is a site filled with hundreds of free online documenteries just waiting to be seen. So come on in!

Listing and display of various documentary films ... extensive.

ree documentary website that provides a handpicked collection of documentary films. All films can be watched online and there is no sign up. You can search for documentaries and browse them by categories such as activist, celebrity, conspiracy, mystery, war, technology…

awesome

Maira Kalman: "Everything is invented. Language. Childhood Careers. Relationships. Religion. Philsophy. The Future. They are not there for the plucking."

A selection of images throughout most of China, July - October 1983. Many cityscapes have changed beyond recognition since then ... I have arranged the sets on this page in the order that I visited the places named. I have also added sets for images of "transport interest" - steam locomotives, tramcars and trolleybuses. I traveled in China for three months in 1983, and managed to visit, or "pass through," every province except Tibet, Hainan (which part of Guangdong Province back then), and Taiwan (which I visited in 1980). Except for those traveling with carefully-selected groups, few Americans visited China following the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

In this article, we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of btrfs on many levels - technical, political, personal - and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus's root file system. Knowing the background and motivation for each step will help you understand why btrfs was started, how it works, and where it's going in the future. By the end, you should be able to hand-wave your way through a description of btrfs's on-disk format.

btrfs is a b-tree based fs that is cow friendly (i.e. by removing sibling links you don't have to copy whole tree on block update). Support snapshots, checksums etc. Implementation comes out of Oracle, has some commonalities with zfs.

Much like This American LIfe, but with a historical focus.

Remember to subscribe to this in Zune.

Ftoto-reportaje sobre el lanzameinto de la bomba en Hiroshima

Saw this in a tweet the other day, subsequently brought it up in a conversation last night. Coca-cola is alien good.

An interesting historical look at the branding for competing brands - coke and pepsi.

ansel-adams.jpg

from Digital Photography School

Via ... someone's Twitter feed. The history of handwriting and the death of it. Does it matter that we are no longer tested for penmanship?

Don't blame computers for my chicken scratch. A shift in educational priorities has left an entire generation of Americans with embarrassingly bad penmanship. How much does it matter?

Don\'t blame computers for my chicken scratch. A shift in educational priorities has left an entire generation of Americans with embarrassingly bad penmanship. How much does it matter?

People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive.

Amazing geography tool that works with Google maps

The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps and Google Earth Rumsey Historical Maps sites have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps

Google File System

ACM Queue, August 7, 2009

australian web projects visualized

For display during Teen Tech Week

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know Existed http://is.gd/1JjlR [from http://twitter.com/teedubya/statuses/2805323472]

10 ting du ikke visste om emoticons: http://bit.ly/XXCGx [from http://twitter.com/MacGeeky/statuses/2279549190]

RT @florinpuscas: RT: @problogger: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Emoticons :) http://bit.ly/d6g7r [from http://twitter.com/Bleau/statuses/1846808254]

History of emoticons

Surely you've used emoticons before, or at least encountered them while surfing the Intertubes, but did you know that they've been around since the 1800s? Or that a computer scientist came up with the smiley emoticon? Here are 10 Things You Didn't Know About Emoticons:

Intervjuu Apple logo disaineriga

se now more than ever before there are so many people trying to become designers and work for agencies just because the tools that are available. So, it's harder and harder to get work. And, the way some people have to get work is by apprenticing and working for nothing for somebody until they get that job, because there is so much competition.

There are many theories about this logo and many of them are just that. Find out the truth, read the interview with Rob Janoff, the designer of the original Apple logo, who will tell you all about his design.

Fantastic interview with the designer of the original Apple Logo

Great Errol Morris series about lies and lying http://bit.ly/CgUcb [from http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/statuses/3208516239]

Errol Morris interviews Ricky Jay.

Jump to: navigation, search The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

"The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion."

Abraham Lincoln information

A resource for US History teachers

Interactive animations about historical events.

Animated Battles

201 activity

history-civil war blog

Dr. Fifer's latest blog posting about technology to be used in teaching of the Civil War. "....encourage you to make a $25 donation to the company and purchase a copy of the CD. As part of the CD, you get all of the material available via the website, plus additional materials and a special Teacher’s Edition of the animations....."

Blogs, links, and other activities for elementary and secondary students.

Great blog with lots of resources about teaching the Civil War using technology tools. Uses lots of videos and Google Earth.

Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxon, Vikings, Children in Victorian Britain, Children of WW2

BBC Primary History - Study Ancient Greeks, Anglo-Saxons, Romans, Children of Victorian Britain, Vikings and Children of World War 2

All about History

Explore the distant to the very recent past, with the Primary History timeline.

for sociall studies

Although aimed at Primary some very useful resources,including videos, on Greeks, romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Children of Victorian Britain, Industrial Revolution, Children of WW2

Demo of an incredible vector drawing application written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963.

can't be as good as everything

Developed in 1963, decades ahead of its time. Fascinating.

Ivan Sutherland

I wrote earlier today about Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be read here -- but I want to write separately about the release today of the 2004 CIA's Inspector General Report (.pdf), both because it's extraordinary in its own right and because it underscores how unjust it would be to prosecute only low-level interrogators rather than the high-level officials who implemented the torture regime. Initially, it should be emphasized that yet again, it is not the Congress or the establishment media which is uncovering these abuses and forcing disclosure of government misconduct. Rather, it is the ACLU (with which I consult) that, along with other human rights organizations, has had to fill the void left by those failed institutions, using their own funds to pursue litigation to compel disclosure. Without their efforts, we would know vastly less than we know now about the crimes

The Report highlights how depraved were the interrogation practices - and how unjust it is to immunize U.S. leaders.

The Report highlights how depraved were the interrogation practices - and how unjust it is to immunize U.S. leaders

Fantastic!!!!!

If the entering college class of 2013 had been more alert back in 1991 when most of them were born, they would now be experiencing a severe case of déjà vu.

If the entering college class of 2013 had been more alert back in 1991 when most of them were born, they would now be experiencing a severe case of déjà vu. The headlines that year railed about government interventions, bailouts, bad loans, unemployment and greater regulation of the finance industry. The Tonight Show changed hosts for the first time in decades, and the nation asked “was Iraq worth a war?”

Facing an influx of refugees, the residents of Algiers Point could have pulled together food, water and medical supplies for the flood victims. Instead, a group of white residents, convinced that crime would arrive with the human exodus, sought to seal off the area, blocking the roads in and out of the neighborhood by dragging lumber and downed trees into the streets. They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply "didn't belong."

Hurricane Katrina Information

It was September 1, 2005, some three days after Hurricane Katrina crashed into New Orleans, and somebody had just blasted Herrington, who is African-American, with a shotgun.

The attack occurred in Algiers Point. The Point, as locals call it, is a neighborhood within a neighborhood, a small cluster of ornate, immaculately maintained 150-year-old houses within the larger Algiers district. A nationally recognized historic area, Algiers Point is largely white, while the rest of Algiers is predominantly black. It's a "white enclave" whose residents have "a kind of siege mentality," says Tulane University historian Lance Hill, noting that some white New Orleanians "think of themselves as an oppressed minority."

One of the most disturbing investigative reports to date. Mob mentality is indeed difficult to understanding during life threatening times. Where does one draw the line between self preservation and compassion. Makes me wonder far too often how any of us would react under the same circumstances.

apple stevejobs biography jobs mac

For five years the owner of the Jackling House in Woodside, California, has been trying to knock it down. He hates the place, calling it “one of the biggest abominations of a house I’ve ever seen”. He hates it so much, he has abandoned it to live a few miles away in Palo Alto. Pictures of the interior show a ghostly, decaying mansion. The owner can’t knock it down because of protests from conservationists. But a deal has been done. He will spend $600,000 to have it taken down and will have it rebuilt elsewhere — not a big victory by his standards, but a satisfying one. He has been having a hard time lately.

My own view is that a Jobsless Apple will seek a merger with Google. The two companies are rapidly converging... There is Apple’s iPhone and there is Google’s Android, not a phone in itself, but an operating system that can be used by other companies. Google also produce a web browser called Chrome, which competes with Apple’s Safari. And, most importantly, Google is working on a computer operating system, also called Chrome, which may well be a very serious competitor for Mac OS X... The point is that both companies are aiming to seize dominance of the world market from Microsoft... The loss of Jobs’s genius for products would mean Google’s innovation and Apple’s design and market sense would be a very good fit, although antitrust regulators might disagree.

"Apple Inc is worth around $140 billion. But is it worth anything without Jobs? It is a company formed around his personality and inspiration. It is also the most watched, envied, admired and adored company in the world."

Via http://tomewing.tumblr.com

tech videos from the 80s and early 90s

Watch The History Of Computers

The History of Computers

I am proud to say, two of my friends have posted this piece on my facebook 'home' page. The msm can't deny there are many out there who pay attention and think.

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

So, if we look at the media today, we ought to be aware not just of what we are getting, but what we are not getting; the difference between what is authentic and what is inauthentic in contemporary American life and in the world, with a warning that in this celebrity culture, the forces of the inauthentic are becoming more powerful all the time.

in remembrance of a time when journalism still had the balls to challenge gov't

Cronkite's best moment was when he did exactly that which today's journalists insist they must never do.

In other words, Cronkite's best moment was when he did exactly that which the modern journalist today insists they must not ever do -- directly contradict claims from government and military officials and suggest that such claims should not be believed. These days, our leading media outlets won't even use words that are disapproved of by the Government.

http://www.wittgenstein.it/2009/08/01/code-rush/

documentary about Netscape developers and the release of Mozilla

Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.

Documentary about Netscape's release of browser into open source dev community.

doku über netscape. "Code Rush by David Winton is licensed under a CC 3.0 US License. "

Oh man. I remember watching Code Rush on PBS while in college, shortly after it originally aired. As odd as it sounds, it was then that I knew that I really wanted to be a programmer. (Working on real apps, with real users.)

How websites looked at the launch.

2005

mapas map maps

"Hideous monsters devouring ships? Old map symbols, correctly showing storm fronts

The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.

u.a.: 13) memory 14) dead time

simple nice comment formatting.

A very interesting presentation on the past, present and future of webdev. Python and Django oriented.

That is, PHP suffers from most of the same problems as CGI, but to a lesser extent.

Joe Gregorio suggested Protocol Buffers as a efficient to implement inter-operation for applications built with different languages. Look in the comments for "Common Lisp Users" and laugh out loud. It's really true. Man, we, those who program as a business, are really screwed big time with mass concurrency problems.

Why do you hope you're using Python in 2020? I've been a Ruby developer for the last 3 years, but I don't hope I'm still using Ruby in 10 years. I hope something has come along by then and swept away my expectations of what programming can be like and replaced it with something that feels wholly new, like has happened for me multiple times. I'd feel stagnant and dependent if I was using one primary language for 10 years.

Bit of crystal ball peering

What sucks, now, about web development? How will we fix it? Can we fix it with Python?

"Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage"

"Liberal power of all sorts induces an organic and crazy-making panic in a considerable number of Americans."

The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both.

Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill -- because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites.

a good article for class. talk about the two equal sides to every issue myth.

We'll never have affective healthcare in this country because crazy is a preexisting condition.

So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests.

książka Darwina - animacja rozwoju ksiazki

A visualization of Charles Darwin's edits and additions to On the Origin of Species over the course of six editions. Created using Processing. (via MeFi)

actually a really good speech encouraging the kids to be proactive about their education. "Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future."

Text of Barack Obama's Speech to America's Schoolchildren

Click here to go to the White House website to see the remarks the President will make to schoolchildren on Tuesday, Sept. 8th.

WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.

Photos: Prokudin-Gorskii’s Color Photos of Russia, 1907-1915 . Note the Technology was revolutionary

color photos from 100 years ago

gorgeous

A great, lengthy piece on cool things to read online to learn more about the world

One would be hard-pressed to disapprove of autodidacticism. Consider a list of notable alumni from the academy of the self-taught: René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, William Blake.

"While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can’t put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly."

The Prime Minister has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the “appalling” way he was treated for being gay.

finally

"We’re sorry, you deserved so much better."

did everyone read this: The Prime Minister has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the "appalling" way he was treated for being gay. > http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Eight years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember and here, take a look back, and a look at the present. This year's remembrance is emphasizing volunteerism and service, honoring the private citizens that volunteered after the attacks and encouraging the observance of the anniversary to be a day of service. Construction at Ground Zero, the site of the former twin towers, is years behind because of construction delays, design disputes and litigation involving developers, state and local officials and insurance companies. At this point, One World Trade Center (formerly the Freedom Tower), the 120-story anchor building on the site, is scheduled for a 2013 completion.

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

Make History is a collection of stories, videos, and photos submitted by people who experienced 9/11. 911History.org will become a permanent digital archive and help build an interactive, mapped time line of events on the web. Each photo will be placed alongside current Google "Street View" photos of various locations. Users can click on locations, themes or time of day to view the footage or images from the locations they were actually taken.

A collective retelling of 9/11 through the eyes of those who experienced it.

Could I stick to this? Wow. Could you?

Franklin’s plan is an inspiration to me because it reminds me why I went down the tough road of being an indie developer in the first place: to live a more balanced, reflective life.

A photo of the daily schedule that Benjamin Franklin tried to follow, from his Autobiography. He claims that, alas, he could not keep to it :)

"...according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution."

This article raises a few questions for me: 1) Only 39% of Americans believe in evolution? 2) Are we sure the only (or main) reason the movie isn't being picked up is because of the controversy? Could it just not be a good movie or economically viable?

No US film distribution of Charles Darwin film bio

"Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was published. "That's what we're up against. In 2009. It's amazing," he said. "The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up."

(11th September 2009)

Charles Darwin film

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.

This site comes from the University of Richmond. Use it to find maps of all presidential elections from 1840-2008.

The Evolution of Apple Ads http://bit.ly/45FwRp [from http://twitter.com/inti/statuses/4005419829]

Webdesigner Depot

Apple first started advertising their products in the late 1970s. The 80s showed a wide variety of ads, some of which served to convince consumers that they

Awesome post - I love looking back at old sites like this

In the heydays of the internet - when Google wasn’t the only search engine people used to seek information on the web - web surfers (I bet you haven’t heard that term in a while) had several options for finding what they needed on the net. This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put your nostalgia hats on as we travel back to the ancient times of the internet!

In the heydays of the internet - when Google wasn’t the only search engine people used to seek information on the web - web surfers (I bet you haven’t heard that term in a while) had several options for finding what they needed on the net. This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put your nostalgia hats on as we travel back to the ancient times of the internet!

This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You'll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time.

Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and even emails. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated weekdays.

As a letter writer myself, I approve! (via Laughing Squid)

Цитаты, афоризмы, высказывания

The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched. The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand.

Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.

The silence can be attributed partly to fears that the US would figure out how to disable the system. But the principal reason is more complicated and surprising. According to both Yarynich and Zheleznyakov, Perimeter was never meant as a traditional doomsday machine. The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves.

Here are some of the most controversial magazine covers of all time.

Nice vintage ads.

Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.

Have fun watching all of the old commercials we grew up with. Remember how much you begged for that Snowcone Machine? Your mother said it was dumb, watch the commercial again, I think she was right!

WBshop.com - The Official Online Store of Warner Bros. Studios

Hard to find films from WB back catalogue

Warner Bros. new on demand archive of movies, many of which have never made it to VHS, not to mention DVD.

Warner catalog stuff on DVD

dvd's on demand

Rare DVDs on demand

The Official Online Store of Warner Bros. Studios: Warner Archive

omg!

Series coming to an end. Children no longer presumed literate.

26 years! Wow! Not as long as Sesame Street, but WOW!

For 26 years, Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton shepherded kids through the exciting world of books. The show, which fostered a love of reading, was the third longest-running program in PBS history, outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

I recommend this article for those of you who grew up with Reading Rainbow and who value children's literature.

After 26 years, the beloved children's show hosted by LeVar Burton will disappear from the airwaves. Today, educational funding favors programs that teach kids how to read, rather than why to read.

Even if you can't remember a specific Reading Rainbow episode, chances are, the theme song is still lodged somewhere in your head: Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high, Take a look, it's in a book — Reading Rainbow ... Remember now? Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.

"Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books."

"Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do."

THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH

People who know a lot about a lot have long been an exclusive club, but now they are an endangered species. Edward Carr tracks some down ...  read more »

That is why modern institutions tend to exclude polymaths, he says. “It’s very hard to show yourself as a polymath in the current academic climate. If you’ve got someone interested in going across departments, spending part of the time in physics and part of the time elsewhere, their colleagues are going to kick them out. They’re not contributing fully to any single department. OK, every so often you’re going to get a huge benefit, but from day to day, where the universities are making appointments, they want the focus in one field.”

People who know a lot about a lot have long been an exclusive club, but now they are an endangered species.

“Nowadays people that are called polymaths are dabblers—are dabblers in many different areas,” he says. “I aspire to be an intellectual polygamist. And I deliberately use that metaphor to provoke with its sexual allusion and to point out the real difference to me between polygamy and promiscuity."

"People who know a lot about a lot have long been an exclusive club, but now they are an endangered species..."

»But what’s almost certain is that economists will have to learn to live with messiness.«

It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes — or so they believed — were both theoretical and practical, leading to a golden era for the profession.

By Paul Krugman

From the Smithsonian. Eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People." Features artwork, photos, and newsreels.

"Picturing the 1930s," a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of Virginia, allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Using PrimaryAccess, a web-based teaching tool developed at the university's Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, visitors can select images, write text, and record narration in the style of a documentary filmmaker.

1930's in pictures

Written for President Nixon, just in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were marooned on the Moon's surface

speech written for case that Aldrin and Armstrong were to stay stranded on the moon

"Columnist and presidential speechwriter Bill Safire was one of only three non-disloyal Jews President Nixon could name. Here is the speech he drafted for Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon!"

Ardi instead shows an unexpected mix of advanced characteristics and of primitive traits seen in much older apes that were unlike chimps or gorillas (interactive: Ardi's key features). As such, the skeleton offers a window on what the last common ancestor of humans and living apes might have been like.

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed "Ardi." (See pictures of Ardipithecus ramidus.) The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin's time, that a chimpanzee-like missing link—resembling something between humans and today's apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree. Indeed, the new evidence suggests that the study of chimpanzee anatomy and behavior—long used to infer the nature of the earliest human ancestors—is largely irrelevant to understanding our beginnings.

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.

From the first web browser in 1991 to the present day - one for the geeks!

crazy books to read or not

Exchange ideas with the world’s leading scientists, educators, policymakers, artists, and authors. Presented by WGBH Boston with PBS, NPR, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and The Lowell Institute.

Contiene una información muy completa de redes sociales, videos, fotos... Genial

Artikel zur Geschichte der Social Media

In this article, we’ll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day.

The History and Evolution of Social Media | Webdesigner Depot - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

There is a wonderful Liberty's Kids website that has a segment from the show called Now and Then which is great fun.

Welcome to the companion site for Liberty's Kids, an animated adventure television series for children ages 8-14, about three kids who, by working as reporters for Ben Franklin, bring to life the american revolution.

Activities and resources for the American Revolution

This is a site directed at kids about the american revolution.

Open-ended activities and interactive games that motivate students to explore American history. Explore the Revolutionary Archive of historical information and images that they can use

Link for biographies, Franklin, his inventions, government, etc.

“The search results are extremely poor,” [...]. “Like nobody cares.” [...] “Google does get a lot of credit for putting it together and making it available,” [...] “But search capabilities are important for such a large collection of data. The archive’s value to the community is considerably reduced if it’s not conveniently searchable.” A year after Slashdot called attention to the bugs, the problems with the archive not only haven’t been fixed, but they aren’t reflected in the Google Groups “known issues” page. Asked if the bugs are documented anywhere, or if Google planned on repairing its library, a company spokesman was noncommittal. “We’re aware of some problems with the way search is working in Google Groups,” said Jason Freidenfelds, in an e-mail. “We’re always working to improve our products.” Templeton, who helped Google compile an index of historically significant Usenet articles when it first launched its archive, thinks Google’s neglect is a simple matter of economics.

"the rusting shell of Google Groups" ABANDONED FOR A REASON?

Our present is a lot better than the future they imagine

This montage of AT&T ads came from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM, when Newsweek thought that one day, magazines would be sent to you in CD-ROM form, sponsored with ads. It's an interesting view of the future.

Ein weiteres Stück in der Infographics-Sammlung. Ist aber auch ziemlich nice.

huge images showing all space missions

beautiful image of where the last 50yrs of space exploration have gone. nice picture

Dutch scholar claims that "bara" in the first sentence of the Bible does not mean create, but separate: thus no creatio ex nihilo. Instead, earth and many of its elements (waters, sea monsters) already existed. God created humans and animal life, but not the earth itself. If true, this would be interesting because it would remove, e.g., the seeming conflict with classical cosmology (cf. Aristotle) and other early, as well as possibly later doctrines.

veeery interesting

He's the separator!

backbutton

jQuery BBQ enables simple, yet powerful bookmarkable #hash history via a cross-browser window.onhashchange event. In addition, jQuery BBQ provides a full jQuery.deparam() method, along with both fragment and query string parse and merge utility methods.

jQuery BBQ enables simple, yet powerful bookmarkable #hash history via a cross-browser window.onhashchange event.

All animated gifs of Under Construction

Funny archive of "Under Construction" signs--so much activity!

every under construction gif and animated gif ever. save from geocities

This small collection was saved from the rapidly dying Geocities, which Archive Team is working desperately to save for a historical archive. Please consider visiting our site and helping us with collecting, education, and writing.

It's almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively oppose new inventions that do (or might) disrupt existing business models. But how many techies actually know what rightsholders have said and written for the last hundred years on the subject?

free films!

Film Noir movies

Expressionistic crime dramas of the 40s and 50s: tough cops and private eyes, femme fatales, mean city streets and deserted backroads, bags of loot and dirty double-crossers.

An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. What is lost when a language dies? In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.

We’re marking the occasion by honoring 10 categories of 10 noteworthy sites each (plus one to make 101, of course). With this 10th roundup of meritorious sites, we’ve also sought to break the mold a bit and encompass more of the “Web 2.0″ sites that are paving the way for changes in online genealogy over the next 10 years. Something had to give, however, to keep our count at a manageable 101, so we’ve omitted some old favorites—still worth bookmarking, nonetheless—and several excellent foreign research sites of interest to genealogists with that particular ancestry. Sites that are mostly free but where you might still wind up pulling out your credit card for some purchase or other are marked with a $. Subscription-only sites and those where you have to pay for any meaningful results are indicated with $$

Best in 10 areas for searching family history (many free sites includes but also includes $$$ subscribed resources)

Family Tree Magazine - 101 Best Web Sites 2009

Historic Polar Images illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards, from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

digitisation project

Historic Polar Images

Lovely site with polar images

The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.

RT @NMHS_Principal: Hotscience interactive activities from NOVA http://bit.ly/2VlZuv Cool stuff! [from http://twitter.com/MrTRice_Science/statuses/4978995851]

nova interactives archive

I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Ricky Jay profile in the New Yorker recommended by Whet Moser

Terrific profile of magician and historian Ricky Jay, and "the virtues of skeleton men, fasting impostors, and cannonball catchers".

A 1993 profile on sleight-of-hand artist and erudite Ricky Jay.

A profile of Ricky Jay from the New Yorker. April 1993.

A free online world history textbook. Brought to you by the KidsKnowIt Network, the Totally Free Children's Learning Network.

제목그대로 아이를 위한 세계역사 근데 왜 외국의 어린이 사이트는 저런 진한 이상한 색으로 되어있을까...

เวทีแลกเปลี่ยน

Early (1906-1915) Color photography from around the russian empire

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Since the Great Depression, presidents have frequently experimented with Keynesian economics to combat recessions. Three economists chronicle the history of government policy during past recessions and explain what worked and what didn’t.

Keynesian economics

A possible web page for International Finance of Princ of finance

Charts showing the world today and 30 years ago.

New Scientist infographic

Chart with statistics and trends

good summary

the state of the world across a number of parameters

is the world getting better or worse?

Evidence of steady human progress but unsolved environmental issues

RT @juliasmola: How Popular Website Designs Looked Like In Late 90's. http://bit.ly/3bU6bm [from http://twitter.com/Velona/statuses/3301779448]

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

How Popular Website Designs Looked Like In Late 90’s

E@5=5B8B5;L=>!!!!!!!! to englisch

The purpose of this project is to provide an emulation of the on-board Apollo guidance computers, along with some ancillary items needed to make the emulation do something interesting. "AGC" stands for Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC was the principal on-board computer for NASA's Apollo missions, including all of the lunar landings. Both the Command Module (CM) and the Lunar Module (LM) had AGCs, so two AGCs were used on most of the Apollo missions, but with differing software. The computer and its software were developed at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, also known as Draper Labs.

Apollo source code

"次期GFSが実装するマルチマスター構成は、Amazon DynamoやWindows Azureのキー・バリュー型データストア「Azure Storage」が採用済み。Amazon Dynamoはコンシステントハッシングというマルチマスター構成を採用し、Azure Storageはピア・ツー・ピア技術の基盤である「分散ハッシュテーブル」というマルチマスター構成を採用する。 　Amazon DynamoやAzure Storageは、データの主たる保存先をサーバーの物理メモリーとすることで、システムの応答性を向上するというアプローチを採用している。これまで、「データの永続化」とはハードディスクにデータを保存することを指していた。しかし十分な数の複製を複数のサーバーに作成すれば、保存先がメモリーでもデータの永続化が図れるというのが、Amazon DynamoやAzure Storageの発想だ。"

Googleのすごさ

やっぱりGoogleすげーや。

stream great b-movies

Watch classic movies on line free at www.classiccinemaonline.com

Using PHP and jQuery we are going to create a Google Wave-like history slider. Using it, we will enable our visitors to go back and forth in time to view the changes that take place on a comment thread.

e’ve all seen the videos (and some even got access to a developer’s preview) of Google’s latest product – Wave. Although not “ground-braking” and “revolutionary” as we’ve imagined (wonder why “over-hyped” comes to mind) it still features some great UI that will surely inspire at least a few developers to implement some of it in their works. I, being one of those inspired people, am going to show you how to create a Google Wave-like history slider. Using it, we will enable our visitors to go back and forth in time to view the changes that take place on a comment thread. So take a look at the demo (maybe even keep it open in a separate tab), download the example files and keep on reading.

Google Wave like UI with history slider

...we've taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what's actually happened to newspaper circulation.

Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that's no way to look at data! It's confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we've taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what's actually happened to newspaper circulation. (We excluded USA Today, because we don't care about it. If you're in a hotel? You're reading it now. That's nice.)

100 youtube clips about various points and events in history

Renaissance Art, ...

If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need. Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You’re sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure.

awesomeness, people holding snapshots from the past onto settings from today :-)

Since 2005, VMware and Xen have gradually reduced the performance overheads of virtualization, aided by the Moore’s law doubling in transistor count, which inexorably shrinks overheads over time. AMD’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI – 2007) and Intel’s Extended Page Tables (EPT – 2009) substantially improved performance for a class of recalcitrant workloads by offloading the mapping of machine-level pages to Guest OS “physical” memory pages, from software to silicon. In the case of operations that stress the MMU—like an Apache compile with lots of short lived processes and intensive memory access—performance doubled with RVI/EPT. (Xen showed similar challenges prior to RVI/EPT on compilation benchmarks.)

...black colonial soldiers - who made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the unit that led the Allied advance into the French capital.

Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory. Many who fought Nazi Germany during World War II did so to defeat the vicious racism that left millions of Jews dead. Yet the BBC's Document programme has seen evidence that black colonial soldiers - who made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the unit that led the Allied advance into the French capital. By the time France fell in June 1940, 17,000 of its black, mainly West African colonial troops, known as the Tirailleurs Senegalais, lay dead.

Allied High Command agreed, but only on one condition: De Gaulle's division must not contain any black soldiers.

"We were colonised by the French. We were forced to go to war. Forced to follow the orders that said, do this, do that, and we did. France has not been grateful. Not at all."

WWII

Ok, maybe not every country, but with at least 12 different sockets in widespread use it sure as hell feels like it to anyone who's ever traveled. So why in the world, literally, are there so many?

Ok, maybe not every country, but with at least 12 different sockets in widespread use it sure as hell feels like it to anyone who's ever traveled. So why in the world, literally, are there so many? Funny story!

Looks good.

The deliberate cultivation of individual creativity may end up being the most important social result of computer technology. Either that, or cottage programmers like myself will simply have more time to cultivate our gardens

You may have heard about me. In the computer business I'm known as the Oregon Hermit. According to rumor, I write personal computer programs in solitude, shunning food and sleep in endless fugues of work. I hang up on important callers in order to keep the next few programming ideas from evaporating, and I live on the end of a dirt road in the wilderness. I'm here to tell you these vicious rumors are true.

yed images and messages. In one of the sequences a cabin appeared on a hilltop, the door opened, then music played. It was designed to persuade a certain someone to visit me

Soviet War paintings

A fascinating collection showing how horrific World War II was for the Soviet Union.

"Mark Pilgrim traces the origin of the <img> element. A window into standards (and the web) history."

« On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote : I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG.»

Why an img element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins.

dive into mark ‣ November 2, 2009 ‣ Why do we have an IMG element? (history, html, mu)

BBS discussions on IMG tag implementation.

"HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle brackets. Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction. Anyone who tells you that HTML should be kept “pure” (presumably by ignoring browser makers, or ignoring authors, or both) is simply misinformed. HTML has never been pure, and all attempts to purify it have been spectacular failures, matched only by the attempts to replace it."

"Whether you are just starting out in college or are a more experience learner with years under your belt, there is always more knowledge waiting to be discovered. One great way to do that is to read."

100 livros que precisam ser lidos antes de morrer

There is always more knowledge waiting to be discovered.

the answer is??

www.google.com/dashboard

* Found: 783 * Not Found: 218

This is a quick hack I did in the Vancouver airport while waiting for my connection flight YVR->MX . I flew from Tokyo, because I was attending the ISMIR 2009 conference

argues that the process of requirements elicitation as project definition are secondary to the process of creation,testing and learning about nature.

What I cannot create I do not understand. --- Learn how to solve every problem that have been solved. --------- 1) The Space Shuttle Main Engine... many different kinds of flaws and difficulties have turned up. Because, unfortunately, it was built in the top-down manner, they are difficult to find and fix. 2) avionics system, which was done by a different group at NASA: The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.

A Division Through Time

A historical look at points along the border that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 until 1989.

The 100 Best Films of the Decade

Damn, jeg mangler at se MANGE film på den liste

show about global wa

Some maps are large and may take up to a minute to download.

The Oatmeal

choose your own adventure stories thoroughly visualized and diagrammed

choose your own adventure visualizations

Slick visualizations of choose your own adventure stories.

"When a world of new possibilities has just opened, it’s hard to find the will for restraint. But, in time, people scale back the more gratuitous uses of this sort of glitz, moving from what’s possible to what best suits the material." - analyzing the structure of "choose your own adventure" books

"13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them. these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way. so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way." via http://etc.samizdat.cc/2009/11/the-rules-of-the-game

Visualizations of flow through Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Excellent article/information/photographic visualization of the Berlin Wall.

Cool side-by-side comparison of Berlin then and now.

I love these types of interactive pictures. More like this please.

Slider showing before and after photographs of Berlin.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edge.org%2F3rd_culture%2Fschirrmacher09%2Fschirrmacher09_index.html

He is interested in George Dyson's comment "What if the price of machines that think is people who don't?" He is looking at how the modification of our cognitive structures is a process that eventually blends machines and humans in a deeper way, more than any human-computer interface could possibly achieve. He's also fascinated in an idea presented a decade ago by Danny Hillis: "In the long run, the Internet will arrive at a much richer infrastructure, in which ideas can potentially evolve outside of human minds."

Twitter in the classroom.

Usin Twitter in History class

Reflection on the use of twitter in college lecture course at UT Dallas

Twitter in the clssroom

If Homer's Odyssey Was Written On Twitter

Some profanity

Documentary Films

Another archive of documentary films avaialbe for free

from tracy hudson

Die Internetgeschichte BEBILDERT.

gesamtentwicklung, sehr gute zahlen, erste social media erwähnung, blogs, webseiten etc.

Wirklich guter Überblick über die Geschichte des Internet

NASA果然强大的

Historic Timeline on our Quest for New Worlds (Interactive)

Physical and digital storage

II. világháborús légifotó-archívum. - *http://ow.ly/FBjf

Aerial wartime photography

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

"WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. [...] Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center"

Polls can affect president's hold on party - USATODAY.com

The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s. See how each president since then has fared in the approval poll, look at some news events that influenced public opinion and compare how approval ratings evolved for each president.

Presidential approval ratings over time

crazy

"This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi's verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline." [Via: http://kottke.org/09/11/the-fall-of-empires "The fall of empires A visualization of the decline of the world's four maritime empires (British, Portuguese, French, Spanish) from 1800 to 2009."]

his is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi's verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline. More on that project mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experimentations/visualizing-empires

An Archive of 1939 to 2005 Radio Shack Catalogs. Flip-through every page, of every Radio Shack Catalog.

Archive of old Radio Shack catalogs

archive of catalogs

This website is dedicated to America's technology store... RadioShack. For over 65 years, RadioShack produced an outstanding catalog, surpassing the catalog of all rival electronics and technology companies. Through the years, this catalog expanded to contain a mix of hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, TVs, CBs, communication equipment, computers, electronic components, antennas, electronic test equipment, educational kits, toys, gadgets, batteries, and more. Products from the RadioShack catalog were purchased by the everyday consumer, hobbyist, and professional. At this website you will be able to view these old Radio Shack catalogs...year by year...page by page. What's unique about this website is that the catalogs are presented as a VIRTUAL catalog, in a "page-flipping" format. This gives you the experience of paging-through an actual Radio Shack catalog.

arquitetura antiga de Sao Paulo.

Site que cataloga edifícios abandonados ou subutilizados em Sampa.

Desenvolvido a partir da ideia apresentada pelos site português Lisboa Abandonada e pelo argentino Basta de Demoler, onde cidadãos de uma maneira informal criam arquivos fotográficos e iconográficos registrando construções esquecidas na cidade, elaborou-se o projeto de catalogação e histórica da cidade de São Paulo chamado: “São Paulo Abandonada”. Alguém poderia fazer um blog chamado Curitiba Abandonada

Abandoned São Paulo

3.5 centuries of science in an interactive timeline

A brit tudományos akadémia 2010-ben ünnepli alapításának 350. évfordulóját, ebből az alkalomból egy időszalagon elhelyezve számos történelmi jelentőségű publikációját hozta nyilvánosságra. - *http://ow.ly/HbMZ

Interactive Science TimeLine

Historia de la programación, lenguajes y manuales originales en pdf.

Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.

Edict on Maximum Prices issued by Diocletian in 301 A.D.

prices of common goods in ancient rome

Edict of Prices

When studying Ancient Rome, it is only natural to wonder what the price of everyday items might have been. In order to fully understand the price of an item, you must also consider the wages workers received at the time the item was purchased.

What things cost in Ancient Rome

ビルゲイツ、ジョブズ、ラリーペイジ

未来に先回りして点と点を繋げて見ることはできない、君たちにできるのは過去を振り返って繋げることだけなんだ。だからこそバラバラの点であっても将来それが何らかのかたちで必ず繋がっていくと信じなくてはならない。自分の根性、運命、人生、カルマ…何でもいい、とにかく信じること。点と点が自分の歩んでいく道の途上のどこかで必ずひとつに繋がっていく、そう信じることで君たちは確信を持って己の心の赴くまま生きていくことができる。結果、人と違う道を行くことになってもそれは同じ。信じることで全てのことは、間違いなく変わるんです.... 皆さんも自分がやって好きなことを見つけなきゃいけない。それは仕事も恋愛も根本は同じで、君たちもこれから仕事が人生の大きなパートを占めていくだろうけど自分が本当に心の底から満足を得たいなら進む道はただ一つ、自分が素晴しいと信じる仕事をやる、それしかない。そして素晴らしい仕事をしたいと思うなら進むべき道はただ一つ、好きなことを仕事にすることなんですね。まだ見つかってないなら探し続ければいい。落ち着いてしまっちゃ駄目.... ほかの誰もが『そんなcrazyなことはできない』と思うアイデアであれば、競争相手はほとんどいないということ 自信を持て。頻繁に失敗しろ。不可能に対して健全な疑念を持て。君たちにはエンジニアリング、テクノロジー、ビジネスの能力を活用して世界を変える大いなるチャンスがある。重要なことをしろ。楽しめ。さもなければ成功は望めない。旅をしろ。中国・アフリカ・インドがお薦めだ。そこには驚くべきことが沢山ある

The stuff they say about time travel is right. You go back in time and change one little thing, and suddenly the future is full of Nazis and dinosaurs. If you go back through history, you find that time and time again the huge changes that shape our world today all hinged on some utterly random coincidence. Change it, and the entire course of history changes with it.

8th Grade history -- US documents

A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available.

history research

Being NOTES and SLIDES on a talk given at PLAYFUL 09, concerning CHARLES BABBAGE, HEATH ROBINSON, MENACE and MAGE

'...slightly larger than the Crab Nebula. And that is pretty awesome.'

Photos of abandoned Manhattan Project facilities

out experiencing a sense of awe at what was accomplished. The scientific, engineering, managerial, labor, and logistical challenges that were met and overcome are separately impressive but, taken together, simply astonishing. It is all the more incredible that this was done in

5 Ways Social Media Will Change Recorded History - Mashable

Society didn’t take away the privacy of individuals. We gave it away

pt viral

interesting article, all too believable.

In summer 2005, having spent the best part of four decades building a newspaper, film and television empire, Rupert Murdoch decided that the time had come to get serious about the internet. As founder and chairman of News Corporation, one of the world’s biggest and most powerful media conglomerates, Murdoch controls an eclectic portfolio of businesses ranging from The Sun newspaper to the movie studio 20th Century Fox. Yet with young people “watching less television and reading fewer newspapers”, as he observed that summer, News Corp desperately needed a bigger presence online.

Twitterのアーカイブ検索

Twitter search for what someone said.

Beginning today, Google will now personalize the search results of anyone who uses its search engine, regardless of whether they’ve opted-in to a previously existing personalization feature. Searchers will have the ability to opt-out completely, and there are various protections designed to safeguard privacy. However, being opt-out rather than opt-in will likely raise some concerns. The company has an announcement here. Below, a deeper look. The short story is this. By watching what you click on in search results, Google can learn that you favor particular sites. For example, if you often search and click on links from Amazon that appear in Google’s results, over time, Google learns that you really like Amazon. In reaction, it gives Amazon a ranking boost. That means you start seeing more Amazon listings, perhaps for searches where Amazon wasn’t showing up before.

In particular, we now have two “flavors” of personalized search, or “Web History” as is the official Google name for it. There’s Signed-Out Web History and Signed-In Web History.

The work is: Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You're five years old. Don't presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it's just one line saying "Never read this again"; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge. And the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is organization, or librarianship.

his should be a fledgling historian’s maxim & I wish someone had told me this earlier. When you start out studying history — when you begin as a graduate historian, you are nothing; you are not even the history books you’ve already read, because you’ve probably misunderstood or not appreciated some fundamental aspect of them.

I've long held this philosophy. "You’re five years old. Don’t presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it’s just one line saying “Never read this again”; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge."

"Here, there’s one more point I could make: time fine-tunes your collecting habits. You are a predator of sources. Over time, things will start to jump out at you. For a lionness in the savannah on the hunt, the merest movement in the grass is a stimulus to action, but she has learned to distinguish between the random twitches of the landscape and the presence of prey. In the library and the archive, the hunt is as much a matter of skill as of instinct. In short, until you’re an adult lion, jump at everything"

a nice browser market share time-line visualization!

wau

обложки советских альбомов, ну пиздец

70 different sometimes very funny Soviet vinyl covers art

Craptacular...

lol

capas de discos pop russo de 70/80

"Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain" - 1864

Principais imagens de 2009

2009 in photos - The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day.

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 years after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day. (40 photos total) http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/2009_1_12_14/903_20535991.jpg

Really nice looking font.

Fascinating site where you can overlay historic maps onto Google Earth images; compare and contrast then and now. Very cool.

photos of the year 2009 at the Big Picture

2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 years after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please watch for part 3 tomorrow and have a look back at part 1 from yesterday. (40 photos total)

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

Wow, some of these images conjure up memories that seem like ancient history now. A walk down memory lane with these 50 photographs on boston.com

Boston.com

"Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars were by far the most dominant theme. Ten years ago, Bill Clinton was ending his final term in office, very few had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq -- all that and much more has changed in the intervening time."

Call it what you will, "the noughties", "the two-thousands" or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars were by far the most dominant theme.

This has the largest collection of virtual field trips I have ever found. They look pretty fun^_^

tons of virtual field trips

WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION, STUDENTS CAN TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD RIGHT IN YOUR CLASSROOM.

ideals of courtly love, the writing process

Lots to choose from here including several zoos

Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 1)

"To be sure, the Van Meegeren story raises many, many questions. Among them: what makes a work of art great? Is it the signature of (or attribution to) an acknowledged master? Is it just a name? Or is it a name implying a provenance? With a photograph we may be interested in the photographer but also in what the photograph is of. With a painting this is often turned around, we may be interested in what the painting is of, but we are primarily interested in the question: who made it? Who held a brush to canvas and painted it? Whether it is the work of an acclaimed master like Vermeer or a duplicitous forger like Van Meegeren — we want to know more."

Han van Meegeren

Long OpEd piece on a fake Vermeer and Nazi ties in Amsterdam

Compilation des listes des années 2000 (Kottke)

Atari Source Code

source code to many classic Atari games (Digdug, Joust, Ms Pacman)

7800 game source

cost of Marshall Plan

costo del rescate de bancos en la crisis económica del 2008

How much does the bailout cost, compared to other grand government programs? More.

oh. my. god. and where the hell is this money coming from, anyway???

Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA's lifetime budget -- *combined*!

$4.6165 trillion? That'sa spicy meataballa!

"As we've seen in the past several years, salaries and prices fall when unemployment is high. By artificially inflating both, the New Deal policies short-circuited the market's self-correcting forces."

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Price, wage-fixing, and collusion blamed for length of 1930's Depression.

GTD

Steve Wozniak uses Eudora!

This is a Phase II expansion grant from the National Science Foundation (2008-2011). The goal of the project is to develop, classroom test, evaluate and disseminate projects based on primary historical sources in Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Logic and Computer Science courses.

This is a Phase II expansion grant from the National Science Foundation (2008-2011). The goal of the project is to develop, classroom test, evaluate and disseminate projects based on primary historical sources in Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Logic and Computer Science courses. This is a collaborative project between Mathematics (Math) and Computer Science (CS) faculty at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and Colorado State University at Pueblo (CSU-P).

Learning Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science via Primary Historical Sources

The goal of the project is to develop, classroom test, evaluate and disseminate projects based on primary historical sources in Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Logic and Computer Science courses.

One of the best, most compelling, incisive, pithy graphics I have ever seen.

Great picture chart 10 years of history

Robert Harris', Twenty Pieces of Music That Changed the World

One of the most popular features on The Sunday Edition this past year and a half has been, 20 Pieces of Music that Changed the World. The Sunday Edition's very own musical guru, Robert Harris took us on a cultural journey -- discussing the importance of music from Beethoven to Disco, and from Depression-era classics to rap. The entire series is soon to be released as a boxed set of CDs. In the meantime, click here and have and listen!

collection of infographics from Victorian era books/publications

Victorian Infographics -- animals, time, and space from the Victorians. It's beautiful, it's meaningful, it must be infoengravings.

BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics design, illustration, visualization, history, science, graphics, books, maps, science, vintage, infographics

Twitter in Pictures

History of Twitter

Video de la investidura de Barack Obama

Jurament i discurs del dia de la investidura de Barack Obama.

History Being Made..!

Obama's Inauguration Speech

Obama's 2009 inaugural address

Picture (High Res) of the complete Gameboy Timeline, from the Game&Watch up untill the Nintendo DSi

1989, baby!! (via Rhea)

Seneca, a Spanish-born philosopher of Rome who lived in the first century A.D., was one of the prominent sages of the Stoic school. He's chiefly remembered today for his Moral Essays, a collection of twelve articles on various ethical themes. "On The Shortness Of Life" is an essay addressed to a friend, and it is excerpted and condensed here from Moses Hadas' fine work, The Stoic Philosophy Of Seneca.

True.

got mugged on Christmas Eve. I was in front of my Brooklyn apartment house taking out the trash when a man pulled a gun and told me to empty my pockets. I gave him my money, wallet, and cell phone. But then—remembering something I’d seen in a movie about a hostage negotiator—I begged him to let me keep my medical- insurance card. If I could humanize myself in his perception, I figured, he’d be less likely to kill me. He accepted my argument about how hard it would be for me to get “care” without it, and handed me back the card. Now it was us two against the establishment, and we made something of a deal: in exchange for his mercy, I wasn’t to report him—even though I had plainly seen his face. I agreed, and he ran off down the street. I foolishly but steadfastly stood by my side of the bargain, however coerced it may have been, for a few hours. As if I could have actually entered into a binding contract at gunpoint.

How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Download free teaching activities for middle- and high- school classrooms to bring a people's history to the classroom. Sponsored by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

The Zinn Education Project is a website designed to help teachers use A People's History of the United States in their classrooms. The Zinn Education Project provides complete lesson plans for use in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings. In some cases the lesson plans include document excerpts and references to A People's History of the United States. You can search for lesson plans by time period, theme, or by student reading levels.

Lots of teaching resources identified by time period and theme. - not dependent on any text. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

Howard Zinn is known for telling US History from various perspectives. This would be a great tool for you if you ever talk about US History in your classroom.

The

These designs are reproductions of Eiffel's original designs included in his book "The 300 Meter Tower", Lemercier publications, Paris 1900.

para Histourist

How Florence Nightingale used statistics and good visualization to persuade the queen of England to improve the military medical service.

passion, persistence, for the least, but combined with competency and intelligence

Maps hdma

PER AGED AIR

Site com todas as capas de revistas que Steve Jobs já figurou. Muito bacana.

I'd never heard of Pivolo wine...

Impressive.

"How television tried to predict the future of science"

How television tried to predict the future of science. I can't believe this has not been promoted more.

From a time before we started dumbing down science for the masses...

Classic UK TV

They say there are no original ideas out there, and we can believe that. Storytelling themes are universal and we understand when a character or scene gets "borrowed" here and there. But it's hard not to feel betrayed when you find out that some of the stories around which your entire childhood revolved were, for the most part, copied and pasted in with a cavalier attitude of, "the little bastards will never know the difference!" We're talking about...

6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs. This article originally written by CNN.

Comparing presidential approval ratings over the decades.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fdocuments%2Finfo-presapp0605-31.html%3Fr

WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.

year

The White House Blog, January 21, 2009

America: In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. Thank you. God bless you. And

The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the regular Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, ten things we did not know last week. To kick off 2010, here's an almanac of the best from the past year.

The most interesting and crazy facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the regular Magazine documents a few of them inside its weekly feature, 10 things we did not know last week. To kick off 2010, here's an almanac of the best from the past year.

The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.

cool facts

Just so you know it now

20 RPG game series with descriptions

[In the latest in his popular Game Design Essentials series, which has previously spanned subjects from Atari games through 'mysterious games', 'open world games', 'unusual control schemes' and 'difficult games', writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick -- and why you should care.]

Really great analysis.

America has been strong because, despite its flawed system, people built toward the future in the 1840s, and the 1930s, and the 1950s. During just the time when Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park, when Theodore Roosevelt set aside land for the National Parks, when Dwight Eisenhower created the Pentagon research agency that ultimately gave rise to the Internet, the American system seemed broken too. They worked within its flaws and limits, which made all the difference. That is the bravest and best choice for us now.

Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governing system is old and broken and dysfunctional. Fixing it—without resorting to a constitutional convention or a coup—is the key to securing the nation’s future.

Very good but doesn't *really* propose that strong of sol'ns. I think we need to try to infuse competition into the government. I also think that we need to cut military spending, my god how did he not mention this!

thoughtful - build on this to make the argument that our best way to change the system is by changing the people within it. If people in government were operating more altruistically, it wouldn't matter what system they operated within, good things would happen.

ink is really cool, though, is that the photo also shows the agent’s worksheet:

German

Good visual/info on history of computer storage.

Far from comprehensive, but entertaining.

vonnegut on slaughterhouse five : "On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden -- possibly the world's most beautiful city. But not me. "

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s letter home describe the real-life Slaughterhouse Five scenario of his POW internment during WWII.

"We will end up with one and a half cities in America -- Washington, D.C., and American Idol. We will all live in Washington, D.C., where the conversation is a droning, never advancing, debate between "conservatives" and "liberals." We will not read about newlyweds. We will not read about the death of salesmen. We will not read about prize Holsteins or new novels. We are a nation dismantling the structures of intellectual property and all critical apparatus. We are without professional book reviewers and art critics and essays about what it might mean that our local newspaper has died. We are a nation of Amazon reader responses (Moby Dick is "not a really good piece of fiction" -- Feb. 14, 2009, by Donald J. Bingle, Saint Charles, Ill. -- two stars out of five). We are without obituaries, but the famous will achieve immortality by a Wikipedia entry."

—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper's Magazine) An obit of the way we used to get news and for the public record keeper.

Twilight of the American newspaper tells the story of San Francisco and its newspapers. And in that tale, a glimpse that we might be losing our sense of place along with the newspaper.

From the BetaMax to the HD DVD the following are a list of the ads from technology that are either in dead or dying format, or those which ...

It is interesting to look back at the various ways that technology has been advertised to consumers over the past several decades. It is particularly interesting to look back at these advertisements when the featured products have been made obsolete. From the BetaMax to the HD DVD the following are a list of the ads from technology that are either in dead or dying format, or those which are no longer in production.

12 dead technology ads: http://bit.ly/jeq96 [from http://twitter.com/mikkokiviniemi/statuses/1602207567]

If you just went by the advertising, you would've thought Betamax would be around forever:

Here is an overview of product design evolution over years:&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10;http://designreviver.com/tips/a-decade-in-web-design-1997-to-2009-in-pictures/&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10;Most of them have moved towards and clean clutter-free user experience. http://www.cnn.com/ stands out well (perfectly minimalist!)&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10; &#10;&#10;Thanks & Regards,&#10;&#10;Pravin

Evolución de conocidos sitios web

Bibliography of Programming Languages Implementation

digitized manuscripts, japanese woodcuts, medieval books, old photos

Rich, Black, Flunking Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it. By Susan Goldsmith May 21, 2003 Chris Duffey John Ogbu has been compared to Clarence Thomas, denounced by the Urban League, and criticized in The New York Times. Amy Weiser It wasn’t socioeconomics, school funding, or racism that accounted for the students' poor performance, Ogbu says; it was their own attitudes, and those of their parents. Chris Duffey Lionel Fluker John McWhorter believes academia too readily blames white people. The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district. They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind their white classmates in every measure of academic success: grade-point average, stand

John Ogbu attributes more of the responsibility for the achievement gap to Black people than other academics do.

Ogbu's work on the black middle class in Shaker Heights OH

A financial crisis is the worst time to change the foundations of American capitalism.

an insane article, on this day there were videos of tent camps in Sacramento, CA filled with people who had lost jobs. The editorial is by Michael Boskin

More hi-res images from Haiti

I won't waste money donating to Haiti.

read the comments... brilliant!

Haiti photo story

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X&#039;s user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here&#039;s why.

Interesting guess at how the Apple tablet UI might be designed.

Anton LaVey

Pattie Boyd

3D virtual browsing. Interface it a bit clunky, but I heart me some virtual books.

Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon. Launch Turning the Pages™ 2.0 * Full 3D version - high end, full functionality. (Need help?) * Silverlight version - if you cannot use the 3D version, try this one. (Need help?) * Accessible version - if you're still having difficulty, try this version. (Need help?) The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts. William Stukeley's Life of Newton Thomas Paine's iron bridge design Woolsthorpe Paine letter The Constitutions of Carolina Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Foot Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses

Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible.

Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon.

the ampersand

A história do "&".

História do Ampersand < & > | The ampersand is one of the most unique typographical characters out there.

michaelv.org

Emulación del sistema operativo Windows v3.11 en JavaScript

Windows 3.1 in a browser window

Home page of Michael Vincent, containing information about calculators, computers, and plenty of random nonsense.

windows emulato in javascript

Google has added a new twist to its popular 3D map tool, Google Earth, offering millions of users the chance to visit a virtual ancient Rome. ... This is another step in creating a virtual time machine.

Interesting, though the codebreaker did use a computer to solve it.

200 anos depois um texto criptografado é decodificado.

WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages:

A cipher by Mr. Patterson. Simple to use without a computer, hard to crack.

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.

Evolution explained

There are all sorts of ways to reconstruct the history of life on Earth. Pinning down when specific events occurred is often tricky, though. For this, biologists depend mainly on dating the rocks in which fossils are found, and by looking at the "molecular clocks" in the DNA of living organisms.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn17453-timeline-the-evolution-of-life.html%3Ffull%3Dtrue

There are all sorts of ways to reconstruct the history of life on Earth. Pinning down when specific events occurred is often tricky, though. For this, biologists depend mainly on dating the rocks in which fossils are found, and by looking at the "molecular clocks" in the DNA of living organisms. There are problems with each of these methods. The fossil record is like a movie with most of the frames cut out. Because it is so incomplete, it can be difficult to establish exactly when particular evolutionary changes happened

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate. You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with: * Racism * Fear * Protection of Corporate Profits * Yellow Journalism * Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators * Personal Career Advancement and Greed These are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.

important and relevant history everyone should know

Manolith - History Lesson:

On embroidery / cross-stitch patterns as input for digital designers, and oh yeah, coincidentally, the death of the pixel. Duh. I love this man.

On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel blog image text The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567.

The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567.

lessig lays out various problems and plans w/ copyrighting culture, in GREAT detail. i wonder if his ideas would work...

I love the fact that after 15 years of being a recluse Watterson gives an interview only by email and then is charmingly flippant throughout.

This marks the 15th year since "Calvin and Hobbes" said goodbye to the comics pages. Creator Bill Watterson, who grew up in Chagrin Falls and still makes Greater Cleveland his home, recently answered some questions via e-mail from Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli. It's believed to be the first interview with the reclusive artist since 1989. With almost 15 years of separation and reflection, what do you think it was about "Calvin and Hobbes" that went beyond just capturing readers' attention, but their hearts as well? The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of i

The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once.

His first interview in 15 years.

Cleveland Ohio living section: Get lifestyle, food, religion, home and garden news and more. Comment on the articles and join the forums at cleveland.com

informational

I started using this with version 2.0. Some things never change.

The extended take is a cinematic hire-wire act that pushes the director, actors, cinematographer, art department, sound design, and every other department to their limits.  They take a very long time to set-up, and are very easy to mess up.  The longer the take, the more pressure is added to get it right.

The extended take is a cinematic hire-wire act that pushes the director, actors, cinematographer, art department, sound design, and every other department to their limits. They take a very long time to set-up, and are very easy to mess up. The longer the take, the more pressure is added to get it right.

20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History

In cooperation with the National Science Foundation, NBC Learn explores the physics, biology, chemistry, and math behind the winter games.

NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities.

online videos capitalize on students’ interest in the Vancouver Olympics to make science more accessible to them by illustrating how scientific principles apply to competitive sports. Narrated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt, the series is available to educators free of charge on the NBC Learn web site as a timely way to incorporate the Olympics into their classroom teaching.

The Science behind the winter olympics

NBC Learn interviews athletes, coaches, and scientists in this original 16-part series, and unravels the physics, biology, chemistry, and materials engineering behind the Olympic Winter Games. The Science of the Olympic Winter Games is made possible through a partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Also http://fabiensanglard.net/doomIphone/index.php

Doom 1993 code review

Finally read this NYT Mag article. Western individualism bad for mental health treatment?

To blog about later. "For more than a generation now, we in the West have aggressively spread our modern knowledge of mental illness around the world. We have done this in the name of science, believing that our approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western “symptom repertoire” as well. That is, we’ve been changing not only the treatments but also the expression of mental illness in other cultures. Indeed, a handful of mental-health disorders — depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia among them — now appear to be spreading across cultures with the speed of contagious diseases. These symptom clusters are becoming the lingua franca of human suffering, replacing indigenous forms of mental illness."

It is easy to forget that the big popular sites were once small too. The first version of Digg cost $200 to build and launch. After Kevin Rose came up with the idea back in 2004 he found Owen Byrne through eLance to develop the idea. He was paying $99/month for webhosting and got the domain name for $1,200. A few months later he launched the site with an announcement on his blog. This is what it looked like.

サービスは最低限で始めてよし

via http://slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/210238/How-Infighting-Hampers-Innovation-At-Microsoft + http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ay7zf/microsofts_creative_destruction_by_former_vp_dick/

"Some people take joy in Microsoft’s struggles, as the popular view in recent years paints the company as an unrepentant intentional monopolist. Good riddance if it fails. But those of us who worked there know it differently. At worst, you can say it’s a highly repentant, largely accidental monopolist. It employs thousands of the smartest, most capable engineers in the world. More than any other firm, it made using computers both ubiquitous and affordable. Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office applications suite still utterly rule their markets."

AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter.

Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation.

Microsoft no longer brings us the future.

By DICK BRASS Published: February 4, 2010 Why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has failed to bring us the future.

read this, should be a goodie

RT @estherschindler: I wrote: "Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss" http://bit.ly/5BoWr - I disagree with some of it. [from http://twitter.com/nealrichter/statuses/1652091891]

A new image of "tank man", asks us to re-examine our views about history

RT @mathewi @GreatDismal New photo of Tiananman Square "tank man" just surfaced http://bit.ly/UTk7n [via @pkedrosky] #homeschool #history [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/2032806101]

Everyone has now seen this alternative angle on Tank Man from Tiananmen Square.

Discover more about The Virtual Revolution with our exclusive 3D Documentary Explorer. Mixing video from the series, with the web pages that tell the story of The Virtual Revolution, this is a radical new way to experience a documentary.

An open and collaborative documentary on the way the web is changing the world

volgt geweldige serie over de maatsch. rol van internet - iedere zat bbc2

2D (pseudo 3D) Graphics engine.

Wow, oldest bible goes online

ה-Codex Sinaiticus הוא העותק הקדום ביותר של התנ"ך, שהודפס במאה הרביעית. לאחרונה הועלה לאינטרנט עותק סרוק שלו, שמאפשר לעיין בברית החדשה והישנה (ביוונית), לראשונה מזה 100 שנה.

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1,600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time.

Infograph that tries to depict Facebook’s growth over the past 6 years.

somewhat unusual site that pulls together facts and info to meditate on what happened in the year you were born

What happened in the year you were born? The Internet offers a spooky yet thorough answer to this standard question with whathappenedinmybirthyear.com. The no-frills design evokes the clunky graphical interfaces of the '80s, but the site is in fact the 2010 creation of German writer and programmer Philipp Lenssen, who has marshaled the resources of Wikipedia and an omniscient narrative voice into a nifty way to learn about the state of the world right around the time you arrived in it. Gain insight into what people were watching, reading, doing, and fretting about, with fun facts that include the poster from the entered year's highest-grossing film and the cover of the top-selling book.

In 1981, Eurisko, a computer program that arguably displays the rudiments of such skills, easily won the Traveller tournament, becoming the top-ranked player in the United States and an honorary Admiral in the Traveller navy. Eurisko had designed its fleet according to principles it discovered itself–with some help from its inventor, Douglas B. Lenat, an assistant professor in Stanford University’s artificial-intelligence program.

popular overview

Trillion Credit Squadron playing 'bot in 1984. Cool.

"During one run, Lenat noticed that the number in the Worth slot of one newly discovered heuristic kept rising, indicating that Eurisko had made a particularly valuable find. As it turned out the heuristic performed no useful function. It simply examined the pool of new concepts, located those with the highest Worth values, and inserted its name in their My Creator slots. It was a heuristic that, in effect, had learned how to cheat." :via the new yorker, 2009.05.11 :via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko#cite_note-newyorker-2

"In 1981, Eurisko, a computer program that arguably displays the rudiments of such skills, easily won the Traveller tournament, becoming the top-ranked player in the United States and an honorary Admiral in the Traveller navy. Eurisko had designed its fleet according to principles it discovered itself–with some help from its inventor, Douglas B. Lenat, an assistant professor in Stanford University’s artificial-intelligence program."

25 January 2009 The British Library's head says that deleting websites will make job of historians harder. Historians face a "black hole" of lost material unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records, the head of the British Library has warned.

web sites are vanishing at faster rate and efforts must be made to prevent this phenomenon in order to keep today's digital web resources for future generation.

The article examines the notion of archiving exisiting websites on the internet for the fear of loosing not only content, but part of our history. With so many online sites, especially in the age of user generated websites, blogs, forums, the question is which sites should be archived, and how do we decide?

Lynn Brindley

Il responsabile della British Library afferma che la cancellazione dei siti renderà il lavoro degli storici più duro

Seems like we're becoming alert to the fact that the web contains stuff that needs to be saved. Good!

Historians face a "black hole" of lost material unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records, the head of the British Library has warned. Just as families store digital photos on computers which might never be passed on to their descendants, so Britain's cultural heritage is at risk as the internet evolves and technologies become obsolete, says Lynne Brindley, the library's chief executive.

photos a montrer

A set on Flickr

ingekleurde zwart-wit foto's

In 1900, Goodyear traveled to the Paris Exposition with photographer Joseph Hawkes. They brought back numerous images from the exposition including street life, vistas, pavilions, statues, and other structures and decorative details.

William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923), whose image collections are presented here, was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of fine arts (1899–1923) and a renowned art and architectural historian. In addition to being a vital force in the early years of the Museum's fine arts department, Goodyear did extensive research in art history and architectural theory. In 1900, Goodyear traveled to the Paris Exposition with photographer Joseph Hawkes. They brought back numerous images from the exposition including street life, vistas, pavilions, statues, and other structures and decorative details.

Flickr set of photography of the Paris Exposition. William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923), whose image collections are presented here, was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of fine arts (1899–1923) and a renowned art and architectural historian. In addition to being a vital force in the early years of the Museum's fine arts department, Goodyear did extensive research in art history and architectural theory. In 1900, Goodyear traveled to the Paris Exposition with photographer Joseph Hawkes. They brought back numerous images from the exposition including street life, vistas, pavilions, statues, and other structures and decorative details.

Series fotográficas que nos muestran la vida en el pasado de las gran ciudad de Paris

for schools

The National WWII Museum presents this website with information, lessons, and actiities about the science an technology of World War II. You can use this site to to provide your students the opportunity to broaden their understanding of WWII history.

virtual journey on Google Maps

In recent years Internet Explorer 6 has become the browser web designers love to hate. Security issues, JavaScript errors and inexplicable CSS rendering quirks have...

n recent years Internet Explorer 6 has become the browser web designers love to hate. Security issues, JavaScript errors and inexplicable CSS rendering quirks have made it the brunt of many jokes. With IE6 in its twilight and big companies like Google dropping support, it seems like a good time to take a fond look back at our old foe. In this post we’re looking at what Internet Explorer 6 used to be and why its image changed over the years. You can also see the comic in a larger version. Do we need to review our projects in Internet Explorer 6? Can we stop supporting IE6? If not, how do we handle those users who are still using IE6? And if yes, how can we prompt IE6 users to upgrade? Or how do we convince those who don’t allow their employees to get rid of the legacy browser to upgrade? What do you think? We are looking forward to your opinions in the comments to this post!

Really Nicely Illustrated!

I finally know where Andy Clarke got his Twitter avatar...

Death comes for every man, but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for the bastard. These are the men who, despite whatever terrible things they may have done in life, earned a place in our hearts with their amazingly badass deaths

Evolution of the Household - by decade from the 1950s thru 2000

Pesquisa sobre potencial de consumo da mulher

dados sobre hábitos familiares ao longo do tempo

Photos of King Henry VIII

wonderful illustraitons not as much info as 1 and 2

good pictures

More of a site to gain portraits of the individual.

have to click to get to pictures

Pictures only. Good if I nedded visuals for my paper.

Needs more info. Make it easier to find.

Mostly pictures no info

I liked how the information is in chronological order.

helpful to view portraits of the king

good primary source for pictures

This site has some great pictures.

I like the chronological list.

相変わらずいい発想してんなー

治外法権なう

In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan. If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old – coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest.

Underwater discovery 2

three peat

Information on the digs at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.

Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

"Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization"

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?

JM Keynes

1950年代電車中吊り広告 　この中吊り広告（なかづりこうこく）は、1950（昭和25）年から1954（昭和29）年頃にかけて、京阪神を走る国鉄列車内で実際に使用されていたもので、当時大阪の宮原電車区などで働いていた親戚の国鉄職員（故人）から譲り受けたものです。戦後物資難の時代にあって、裏面が白く、子供の絵書き用紙として使えるということで、電車区で使用済みとなった広告を自宅に持ち帰ったものが、今こうして残っています。 　実物サイズはＢ3規格（横515mm×縦364mm）、印刷技術が向上してカラフルになりつつある頃で、戦後復興期の庶民の生活や終戦後の日本の政治・経済・社会情勢をうかがうことができます。当ページでは、所蔵約280枚の中から、236枚を公開しています。 　これらのうちの一部は、2005年度日本アカデミー賞受賞映画「ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日」、及び2007年度「ALWAYS 続・三丁目の夕日」に資料提供（美術協力）し、集団就職列車、都電（路面電車）、東京駅のシーンに登場しています。（ 映画では商号や商品名を東京地区用に加工されています ）

なかなかどうして、素敵です。マスコミ関連はあんまり変わっていないような気もする。不二家の中刷りのペコが、どう見ても異常。怖えぇ。

あー、こういうの好きです。そして勉強になります。ありがとうございます。

広告の歴史

De evolutie van de logo's van pepsi en coka cola

Pepsi's logos vs. Coca Cola's

logos of the two companies over the years

Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936.

Pictograms design through the ages.

a história dos pictogramas nas Olimpíadas

"In 1936, the music magazine the Gramophone reported that children had "developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker" and described how the radio programs were disturbing the balance of their excitable minds."

Slate Magazine

A useful historical look at the anxiety of technology and information overload.

This article from the Slate looks at a "history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook." It gives a fine perspective on how whilst the technology evolves, the essence of prophets of doom railing against the technology remain basically the same.

Popular Science archives.

"We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. "

designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom

Leads kids through analysis of primary source documents in order to answer question about significant historical events.

10年の変化を地図で体感

via http://chalow.net/2009-05-28-2.html

撮影対象から探す日本古写真集

Hahahahaha... now THIS made my day! Read it. You'll laugh.

re-Colu

@sulaimansaif in reality, the native americans did own land: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html [from http://twitter.com/ZainabA/statuses/3161344492]

Timothy Pauketat's "Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi" MCPL has on order Aug09

A Conversation with Martin Odersky

Scala, a general-purpose, object-oriented, functional language for the JVM, is the brainchild of Martin Odersky, a professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In the first part of a multi-part interview series, Martin Odersky discusses Scala's history and origins with Artima's Bill Venners.

Visualising the Internet and animation on how the Internet works

ww II german photographs

Color photographs from World War 2.

Unas grandes imágenes bélicas de la segunda Guerra Mundial, gracias a demonicious.

Fotos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a Colores

One of the most striking features of the disease is the disproportion between its severity and the simplicity of the cure. Today we know that scurvy is due solely to a deficiency in vitamin C, a compound essential to metabolism that the human body must obtain from food. Scurvy is rapidly and completely cured by restoring vitamin C into the diet.

scurvy bad, science hard : "We tend to think that knowledge, once acquired, is something permanent. Instead, even holding on to it requires constant, careful effort."

this is the "shotgun over the mantle" of the financial debacle we are living through -- those few with a sense of history or drama KNEW it would be fired before the play ends... and here we are

Phil Gramm

news of the repeal of the steal-glass act

The decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provoked dire warnings from a handful of dissenters that the deregulation of Wall Street would someday wreak havoc on the nation's financial system. -- boy did it ever!

Ground zero for the financial crisis. 1999.

visual spiral timeline of earth

Main article on the 4th bomb in BBC by Gordon Corera "The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found."

Dokumente aus der Firmengeschichte von Apple im Computer History Museum.

Apple Computer (now known as Apple, Inc.) was a major force in the personal computer revolution that took place in the 1970s and '80s. Learning about its history teaches us about competing visions of the future and how companies made decisions during this exciting time. The Computer History Museum presents here two special documents from Apple Computer during the early days of personal computing.

The problem with this line of questioning is that technology predated our humanness. Many other animals used tools millions of years before humans. Chimpanzees made (and of course still make) hunting tools from thin sticks to extract termites from mounds, or slam rocks to break nuts. Even termites themselves construct vast towering shells of mud for their homes. Ants herd aphids and farm fungi in gardens. Birds weave elaborate twiggy fabrics for their nests. The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of your body is a billion year old trick at least.

Kevin Kelly on technology-and-humanity's coevolution. "Our genes have co-evolved with our inventions. In the past 10,000 years alone, in fact, our genes have evolved 100 times faster than the average rate for the previous 6 million years. This should not be a surprise. In the same period we domesticated the dog (all those breeds) from wolves, and cows and corn and more from their unrecognizable ancestors. We, too, have been domesticated. We have domesticated ourselves. Our teeth continue to shrink, our muscles thin out, our hair disappear, our molecular digestion adjust to new foods. Technology has domesticated us. As fast as we remake our tools, we remake ourselves. We are co-evolving with our technology, so that we have become deeply co-dependent on it. Sapiens can no longer survive biologically without some kind of tools. Nor can our humanity continue without the technium. In a world without technology, we would not be living, and we would not be human."

the evolution of humans is the evolution of our abilities to analyze and abstract patterns. Languagem, the ultimate pattern abstraction, was crucial to this. (math is just rigorously formal language)

Life before language and before technology

We are co-evolving with our technology, so that we have become deeply co-dependent on it. Sapiens can no longer survive biologically without some kind of tools. Nor can our humanity continue without the technium. In a world without technology, we would not be living, and we would not be human

Star Wars cast in street clohes

@_ignatz http://a6vso.tk [from http://twitter.com/holandita/statuses/2836740883]

I think it's pretty obvious who's who. This is also seems to be pre-accident for Mark Hamill.

Cool old photo

- added by harper reed's google reader

In the ten days since Iran's disputed presidential election, street demonstrations have taken place every day. Many of the photographs here were taken and transmitted at great risk in the past week, in the hopes that others would be able to see and bear witness. [...]

Fotografias de temas da actualidade

Iran pictures on The Big Picture.

Fascinating!

A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there.

This could be a great tool for google hearings and stuff like that.

extensive CSPAN archives going way back.

Virtual tour of Titanic

Discovery Channel's Titanic site

take an interactive ride on the titanic.

Glitzy views of the ideas, feelings, and concerns of five passengers on the ill-fated Titanic

This virtual field trip allows students to explore the lives of people aboard the Titanic. To take the trip, students start by selecting one of five characters. Students will spend four or five virtual days learning about the ship and their selected character. On the night of April 15, 1912 they learn who their person is and if they survived. A great tool to teach students about the Titanic and 20th century history.

In the personal computer’s long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others. Many early PCs shipped with major design flaws that either sunk platforms outright or considerably slowed down their adoption by the public. Decades later, we can still learn from these multi-million dollar mistakes.

Many Links

"When Pinochet's military overthrew the Chilean government 30 years ago, they discovered a revolutionary communication system, a 'socialist internet' connecting the whole country. Its creator? An eccentric scientist from Surrey. Andy Beckett on the forgotten story of Stafford Beer"

Completely

When Pinochet's military overthrew the Chilean government 30 years ago, they discovered a revolutionary communication system, a 'socialist internet' connecting the whole country. Its creator? An eccentric scientist from Surrey. Andy Beckett on the forgotten story of Stafford Beer. (See also: http://vimeo.com/8000921 )

Fascinating article that traces election results in counties in the South all the way back to geological events millions of years ago. In short, coastlines determined soil types which determined demographics which determined voting patterns.

This is so awesome.

How an ancient Cretaceous shoreline voted for Obama.

amazing. how soil types determine voting patterns.

The Game Developer Archives: 'Monsters From the Id: The Making of Doom'

Old professions

Aerodynamic air-cushion vehicle "paleness" project 903 * Nov. 30th, 2009 at 4:42 PM Here in me reached hands [ekranoplana].[Ya] I will break story about it on 3 or 4 parts: 1- aerodynamic air-cushion vehicle outside (1 or 2 parts) 2- aerodynamic air-cushion vehicle from within, the 3- dock of aerodynamic air-cushion vehicle. In 1987. to the water descended "the paleness" the first ship of a series of the combat rocket-carrying aerodynamic air-cushion vehicles with a weight of 400 T. Chief designer he was [V].[Kirillovykh]. Ship was armed by three pairs of the cruise missiles of 3[M]80 or 80[M] "mosquito" (NATO designation SS- N -22 Of sunburn). The second "paleness" also was embedded as rocket carrier, but the begun conversion introduced its correctives, and it they planned to finish building as rescue. [LTKH]: Modification is paleness the span of wing, m 44.00 length, m 73.80 height, m 19.20 wing area, [m]2 550.00 mass, the kgf of empty aircraft 243000 maximum takeoff 380000 ty

Sito russo di foto di uno strano progetto di veicolo anfibio ad effetto suolo detto "ekranoplan" una via di mezzo tra un Hovercraft ed un aeroplano. Sfrutta l'effetto suolo generato dal moto dell'aria sotto le ali ...

massive!

created by Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher @ UMBC with students.

Kal's site on crazy politics

AmericanDad blogs about how lunatics and hypocrites in high places have hijacked the Republican party, and he calls for true conservatives to boot them out and take their party back. Tons of links and references.

Crazy amount of links about how the repubs are crazy

Via J S Dionne

in hyperlinks

all articles from "the onion" relating to bush & bush administration.

In a Herculean feat of linkage, Teresa Nielsen Hayden offers us the Bush years through the watering eyes of Onion readers. As she says "Other histories of the Bush years will doubtless be more factual, but none will ever be truer."

WSJ article that has one part of the housing collapse that I hadn't heard before. Apparently inflation data that gets reported and looked at by the Fed and other regulators doesn't include home prices, it includes rental prices. Since the housing bubble was driven by mortgages, rents didn't spike nearly as much home prices. Had a truer picture of inflation been reflected in the numbers regulators been looking at the rate would have been double what was reported and likely regulators would have had to act in some way.

A great piece on the differences between the housing crash and the dot com bubble.

WSJ.com | Bubbles have been frequent in economic history - Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith explain why the housing crash ruined the financial system but the Dot-com collapse did not

fantastic wsj essay on formation of bubbles, experimental economics

David Frum

I can only hope both sides can start to find more value in the middle. Both edges scare me.

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves. At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994. Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than it was in 1993-94. And of course the Democrats also remember their history, and also remember the consequences of their 1994 failure. This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.

but what is equally true – is that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed – if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office – Rush’s listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads for Sleepnumber beds.

See subsequent followup link...

This site intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street.

"I wanted to build a machine that would be immediately recognizable as a Turing machine to someone familiar with Turing's work."

A video of a working Turing machine that Turing himself would probably have recognized despite the use of modern electronics (the only thing missing is a truly infinite tape). I'm impressed, but it also just drives home why there wasn't a "personal Turing machine revolution" after he proposed the device!

Building a real Turing machine. It uses 35mm film leader and writes 0/1 with a dry erase marker. Very cleaver.

An ACTUAL Turing Machine

An in-depth interview with Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh

Fascinating Fact: Ketchup was originally a fish sauce originating in the orient. Two words from the Fujian region of China were used to describe a fish brine / sauce and a tomato sauce - both words bear a striking resemblance in sound to the word “ketchup”; the words are: ke-tsap and kio-chiap. Early western ketchups were made with fish and spices, or mushrooms. In fact, mushroom ketchup is still available in the United Kingdom and it is prized by some modern chefs for its natural inclusion of monosodium glutamate - the only substance known to stimulate the 5th human taste sense umami (savoury).

7-Up used to contain Lithium. Who'd have thought?

«It's time to declare the end of adolescence. As a social institution, it's been a failure. The proof is all around us: 19% of eighth graders, 36% of tenth graders, and 47% of twelfth graders say they have used illegal drugs, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan. One of every four girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a recent study for the Centers for Disease Control. A methamphetamine epidemic among the young is destroying lives, families, and communities. And American students are learning at a frighteningly slower rate than Chinese and Indian students.»

"Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males." Good point.

an graduate a year early get the 12th year's cost of schooling as an automatic scholarship to any college or technical school they want to a

Complex societies collapse because, when some stress comes, those societies have become too inflexible to respond. In retrospect, this can seem mystifying. Why didn’t these societies just re-tool in less complex ways? The answer Tainter gives is the simplest one: When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t. In such systems, there is no way to make things a little bit simpler – the whole edifice becomes a huge, interlocking system not readily amenable to change. Tainter doesn’t regard the sudden decoherence of these societies as either a tragedy or a mistake—”[U]nder a situation of declining marginal returns collapse may be the most appropriate response”, to use his pitiless phrase. Furthermore, even when moderate adjustments could be made, they tend to be resisted, because any simplification discomfits elites.

"When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t."

Charlie Bit My Finger

This time-line gives a summary of the transfers of nuclear technology and secrets. It starts with the United States in 1945 and moves through USSR (1949), UK & Canada (1952), France (1960) and on to present date 'aspirants'. The New York Times > Science > Image

via @ghensel on twitter

Amid the many uncertainties loosed by the al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, one forecast seemed beyond doubt: Islamist terrorists would strike the United States again—and soon.

Clear overview of the prevailing theories about why no major attacks have occurred since 9/11/01.

An analysis of Obama's victory speech.

linked: A NEW AMERICA http://tinyurl.com/5wqy6t [from http://twitter.com/travispoling/statuses/991273776]

Beautiful. I really enjoyed it.

In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio.

How the New Deal actually corrected the economy and the myths used to argue that it did not.

Addresses the pervasive myth that FDR failed. That is, it's a "myth" for some definitions of "myth." As always, YMMV.

At such a moment, it is imperative to expose a dangerous popular myth regarding the efficacy of President Roosevelt’s actions: that it was not the programs of the New Deal, but only the placing of the nation on a wartime footing years later, that restored the health of the nation’s economy. This belief, though widely held, cannot stand up to even the most basic economic analysis. Yet the mainstream corporate media, which abound with anti-government ideology, seek to reinforce this myth. Just this past Sunday, The Washington Post featured on Page One of its Outlook section an article by Amity Shlaes headlined “FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn’t One to Follow.” Underscoring Shlaes’s made-up claims, the Post ran the continuation of her piece under the title: “FDR’s Plan Failed to Spark Real Growth.”

"I truly feel that the iPhone is a key inflection point in software development. We will look back on this as the time when "software" stopped being something that geeks buy (or worse, bootleg), and started being something that everyone buys, every day. You'd have to be a jaded developer indeed not to find something magical and transformative in this formula, and although others will clearly follow, the iPhone is leading the way."

There's always been a weird tension in Apple's computer designs, because they attempt to control every nuance of the entire experience from end to end. For the best Appletm experience, you run custom Appletm applications on artfully designed Appletm hardware dongles. That's fundamentally at odds with the classic hacker mentality that birthed the general purpose computer. You can see it in the wild west, anything goes Linux ecosystem. You can even see it in the Wintel axis of evil, where a million motley mixtures of hardware, software, and operating system variants are allowed to bloom, like little beige stickered flowers, for a price. But a cell phone? It's a closed ecosystem, by definition, running on a proprietary network. By a status quo of incompetent megacorporations who wouldn't know user friendliness or good design if it ran up behind them and bit them in the rear end of their expensive, tailored suits. All those things that bugged me about Apple's computers are utter non-issue

Proot

para la nota del "ifone" :P

bandeiras

flags. where did they come from? how did they get here?

bandeiras, simbolismo etc

*O*

Linda Vista Hospital

abandoned hospital in Boyle Heights

Abandoned building. Vivid setting for a modern adventure game.

Terrorífco! y de noche y poca gente tiene que ser de infarto!! Alé ahí van las fotos de un hospital abandonado. Gracias AG (Arturo Goga).

reference photos for decrepit building

A unique behind-the-scenes visit of the crafstmen who hammer out the best and most expensive kitchen knives in the world in the city of Sakai, Japan

Picture essay from a tour of Sakai, knifemaker central.

Wonderful image by image guide to Japanese Knife creation.

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意味知ってもやっぱりCapsLockはいらない子な気がする。

なんでシフトキーというのか、コントロールキーというのか。

the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland The original book (w/ writing and drawings) online.

The original manuscript scanned

Photos of every single page of the original manuscript for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Includes hand-drawn illustrations!

2008年度に放送した「NHK高校講座」の再放送です。 全科目・全回を各１回、2008年10月から2009年9月までの期間放送します。

NHK高校講座 | ライブラリー | 世界史 NHK High School Seminar Library - World History - Videos and class notes (in Japanese)

NHK高校講座

Excised

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB260/index.htm Very interesting history of a once "black" agency.

25 godina GUI interfejsa

The Macintosh was introduced January 24, 1984. In fact, the Mac was originally manufactured in the Fremont, California building that now houses Nielsen Norman Group.... Summary: Although its individual features weren't new, the Mac offered integration, the expectation of a GUI, and interface consistency.

"Although its individual features weren't new, the Mac offered integration, the expectation of a GUI, and interface consistency. " Nielsen kommenterer hva Mac har betydd for utviklingen av GUI, og hvor iPhone bør ta oss nå.

He points to "usability" as the great triumph of the Mac. Not only is the platform more successful than ever, but the computing world wouldn't even resemble the one we know without it.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

RT @GuyKawasaki: Top 10 disappointing technologies. http://adjix.com/cm52 &gt;&gt; This wkend primed me for their take on Ubuntu. [from http://twitter.com/awsamuel/statuses/1839944070]

adopters to hold off on upgrading until developer

RT @Farrhad: RT @Iconic88 Top 10 disappointing technologies http://bit.ly/acJVI [from http://twitter.com/phaoloo/statuses/1834098743]

- News - PC Authority

If people use it, it’s valuable

it was fascinating to be in the building during Twitter’s conception and then to read all of the ways that people misunderstood those early days.

"In 2006, [Tony Stubblebine] was the director of engineering at Odeo, a podcasting startup notable for birthing a side project now known as Twitter."

That is M$ backwards compatibility for you! LOL.

Funny, and sad... "And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..*)?, /lpt\d(\..*)?, /con(\..*)?, /aux(\..*)?, /prn(\..*)?, or /nul(\..*)? in any of your routes."

Hotma

The complete, comprehensive history of the Internet from 1957 to 2009, in just 8 minutes.

日本文化って基本的にサブカルなんだよね、というのは、自分も常々感じていた。

サブカルチャーとして捉えてるものがやたらポップな件

良考察

Totally serious - a little mad but interesting

A history of the gruff but surprisingly sophisticated invented language and the people who speak it.

The closest thing to 'hello' in the Klingon language is 'What do you want?' Awesome. http://bit.ly/LPtZS [from http://twitter.com/ellaminnowpea/statuses/1803100377]

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics (1949)

オンライン美術館で絵画の歴史のクイックツアー。

WEBで名作アートを見よう。

Printscreen das lojas da Apple online

The Apple website is somewhat iconic, and over the past few years has become one of the most frequented sites on the internet. According to Alexa, Apple.com is one of the top 100 ranked pages (69th, at the time of writing). Considering the change and evolution undergone by Apple as a company, their website has retained a similar style for almost a decade. This post will take a look at six-monthly snapshots (with a few other notable events) of Apple.com, providing an overview of how the website has evolved over the past 10 years. Prepare for a trip down memory lane!

If you've ever been curious about Jughead's hat, this is just the thing for you. It's really in depth and interesting.

The other night, while attending a small dinner party, the conversation turned suddenly to the subject of Jughead's trademark; his goofy, crown-like hat.

"Um, more like, uh, a kind of beanie - - ? You can see them in old movies, old comics and stuff, so surely people must have actually worn them. I guess they were popular with kids in the 1930s or '40s, during the depression. Homemade from, uh, felt or - - leather, maybe? Encrusted with buttons or bottle caps or other bling. Think of 'The Little Rascals'. Kids shining shoes on street corners, or - - y'know, teen-age delinquents riding around in jalopies."

On the origins of Jughead's hat.

what the heck is Jughead wearing on his head?

this is the coolest bit of pop-culture history I've seen in a while

on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord, on this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics

Obama speech. Use for Hopes and Dreams as well as writing to argue and persuade

Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th US president. Here is his inauguration speech in full.

The full text of Barack Obama's speech on his inauguration as US president.

Four versions of the iconic photo, with recollections by the photographers.

Few images are more recognizable or more evocative. Known simply as “tank man,” it is one of the most famous photographs in recent history.

tank man of Tiananmen square

(7:30)

"If you've ever wondered how the Internet was born, but can't be bothered reading a whole book on the subject, check out this short animated documentary from Milah Bilgil. Entitled History of the internet, it does a great job explaining time-sharing, file-sharing, arpanet and internet. "

Sensacionales fotos del Sahara de la mano de Boston.com.

Neat abandoned stations, places, and spaces of Antarctica.

One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.

Neanderthals? Oh yeah. Humans totally ate them and made their teeth into jewelry - http://tr.im/lLZN [from http://twitter.com/s_m_i/statuses/1848014151]

>One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. Mmmm neanderthal burgers.

One of prehistory’s great mysteries is, what happened to the Neanderthals? Here’s an answer: we ate them.

This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at http://www.spacecraftfilms.com The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.

Super slow-mo but beautiful HD video

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG http://vimeo.com/4366695 – Naly_D (Naly_D) http://twitter.com/Naly_D/statuses/12961184692

Amazing underwater photography from 1938.

fotos de acciones normales abajo del agua

50 discursos históricos disponibles online http://bit.ly/9rfeOi – Juan Diego Polo (wwwhatsnew) http://twitter.com/wwwhatsnew/statuses/13120160646

Mil V-12, oy!

Awesome helicopters

Fotografías y textos de los helicópteros más grandes del mundo.

RT @draenews: Del The Best of LIFE: http://bit.ly/bEUEWO

Dedicated to finding the best of the LIFE Photo Archive and Flickr Commons.

A nice shortcut to sorting through the whole shebang by oneself

Las mejores fotos de la clásica revista, gratis, a sólo un click de distancia.

La Parisienne de Photographie offers you an interactive way to explore the photograph collections of the City of Paris on the Paris en Images site: 25000 pictures

Over 25,000 photographs of the city of Paris online. With French and English interface. The pictures shown on the Paris en Images site may be subject to literary and artistic property rights, industrial property rights, performing rights, rights of publicity, moral rights, property rights or any other right belonging to a third party. Their reproduction by Paris en Image users is authorised for private use only, or to illustrate an educational or research project not commercialised in any form (for example, classes, lectures, theses). Paris en Images offers a free, unlimited-access, interactive way to explore a selection of 25,000 pictures from the photography collections of the City of Paris.

オイラー

哲学的な何か、あと数学とか

解らないけど面白い

"Capitalism (in addition to being a lot of other things) is the way people get rich simply for being rich."

The economy is as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. We think of the economy and its rules as given circumstances, when they are actually constructions. In brief, the money we use is just one kind of money. Invented in the Renaissance, and protected with laws banning other kinds of money, it has very particular biases that lead to almost inevitable outcomes.

Economy's as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boingboing.net%2F2008%2F09%2F23%2Fwhat-went-wrong.html

Meanwhile, local currencies had the opposite bias of centralized currency. Local currencies lost value over time. They were really just receipts on the amount of grain that farmer had brought to the grain store. Since some of that grain was lost to rats or water, and since the grain store had to be paid, money devalued each year. This meant the money was biased towards being spent. That's why reinvestment in infrastructure as a percent of total revenue was so high in the late Middle Ages. It's why they built those cathedrals. They were local efforts, by people looking to invest their abundant wealth into real assets for their communities' future. (Cathedrals were built to attract pilgrims and tourism.) Since the purpose of the Renaissance innovations was to keep the currently wealthy wealthy, the currency was biased to favor those who had it - and could mete it out at high interest rates to those who needed it for their transactions.

Money can be just as open source as any other operating system. It used to be.

explaning the american economic crisis

A funny mid-20th century newsreel featuring amazingly accurate predictions of the year 2000:

Excellent sendup of mid-20th century technocratic utopianism / futurism (a la GM at 1939 world's fair). Via Steve Duncombe's collection

"American journalism is in trouble, and the problem is not just financial. My profession is in distress because for more than a decade it has been chasing the false idols of fame and fortune. While engaged in those pursuits, it forgot its readers and the need to produce a commercial product that appealed to its mass audience, which in turn drew advertisers and thus paid for it all. While most corporate owners were seeking increased earnings, higher stock prices, and bigger salaries, editors and reporters focused more on winning prizes or making television appearances."

Walter Pincus/The Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2009. Internet isn't the threat, stenography and narcissism is. Repetition rather than length.

It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are—"Welcome." You check your mail, then spend a few minutes chatting with your AOL buddies about which of you has the funniest screen name (you win, pimpodayear94).

Killer hand-drawn map of London, slightly bird's-eye viewish.

RT @cunabula: Amazingly detailed map of london, completely handcrafted and beautifully illustrated. http://bit.ly/boKNmX via @martin_isa ...

The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent from the rest of the country. The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols. Walter speaks in the dialect of today, focusing on what he deems interesting or mundane.

インターネットの基礎となっているテクノロジのルーツから、インターネットの爆発的普及を促したウェブの特性、その途上甘んじて受けてきた訴訟、さらにはネット普及の結果として企業がこうむった被害に至るまで、インターネット全体の歴史を掘り起こしてみることにした。

Facebook is a dangerous place to have a profile on - not because of maurading online predators, but because you don't know where you stand with it as a company. This research from the EFF proves that they are happy to re-jig their privacy rules in order make money from their users.

"In the first year of the current bear market, the market has fallen more steeply than it did during the first years of Great Depression's bear markets. After adjusting for inflation, stocks are more than 40 percent lower than they were at their 2007 high (and more than 50 percent lower than their 2000 high)."

"Craftsmanship is a preservation method That's why "being famous" is a great way to preserve your work—because value is the #1 preservative for old objects. But want to know another? Craftsmanship. One of the great hazards of survival through time is the lack of a market and a lack of trade value, but another is simply shoddiness. (I have to chuckle whenever I read yet another description of American frontier log cabins as having been well crafted or sturdily or beautifully built. The much more likely truth is that 99% of frontier log cabins were horribly built—it's just that all of those fell down. The few that have survived intact were the ones that were well made. That doesn't mean all of them were.) It's not just that things that are poorly made deteriorate more readily, it's also that they signal their own worthlessness."

"One of the problems of historical preservation is that people only tend to preserve things that are valuable. And the problem with that is that value fluctuates over time."

really interesting article on the "trough of no value": you buy something it decreases in value until it has no value, but then after a while it has valuer as an antique

Architecture image

arquitectura teórica

Just bookmarking the post announcing Twitter archive search from Google last month

Following the ebb and flow of twitter over time

Google twitter search and timelines

Find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter by zooming to any point in time and “replay” what people were saying publicly about a topic.

【鎧を着ている以上盾は必要なかった】 日本では非常に古くから全身鎧が用いられるようになりました。 大鎧（大鎧は板金に漆を塗った積層装甲である小冊を重層構造にしたもので一種のチョバムアーマーでした）が用いられていた当初、例えばヨーロッパはまだ板金鎧を実用化出来ていません。 ちなみに当時の彼らが着ていたのは柔らかい鉄を延ばした針金で作った鎖帷子でした。 【外国人と日本人の体格差について】 ここではヨーロッパとの比較についてですが結論から言いますと戦国以前の日本人と当時同時代のヨーロッパ人とでは体格差はありません。 ヨーロッパでは１９世紀以前はゲルマンなど一部の地域を除き160センチあれば大男でした。一方日本では東国部者などは170センチ台がごろごろいました。

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They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic picture manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these pictures are regarded as by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography alone; and today, computer images programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be untouched, real portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic picture manipulation that might not be as correct as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost pictures through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography alone; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic picture manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these pictures are regarded as by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these photos are usually thought to be un-tampered with, real portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic picture manipulation that might not be as correct as it once was, these pictures are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer images programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these pictures are usually thought to be un-tampered with, real portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic picture manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer images programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these pictures are generally thought to be un-tampered with, real portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital picture adjustment that might not be as true as it once was, these pictures are regarded as by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer images programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these pictures are usually thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of electronic image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are regarded as by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost pictures through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography alone; and today, computer images programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these pictures are usually thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the mysterious.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital picture manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these pictures are regarded as by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost pictures through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly produce ghost images. But these pictures are usually thought to be un-tampered with, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these pictures are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be un-tampered with, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital picture adjustment that might not be as correct as it once was, these pictures are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be un-tampered with, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

When Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave a gloved Black Power salute on the Olympic podium in October 1968 it sent a shockwave through sport. But what happened to the other man on the platform?

In case you ever wondered who the white guy on the podium was.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01355/temple-wide_1355306i.jpg

RT @guykawasaki Man spends 30 years creating a model of Herod's Temple http://adjix.com/4zut - 와우, 대단하다. 아내는 좀 불쌍하지만... [from http://twitter.com/enamu/statuses/1256213630]

A model of biblical proportions: man spends 30 years creating a model of Herod's Temple

A model of biblical proportions: man spends 30 years creating a model of Herod's Temple - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk art architecture bible history religion news fun

Man spends 30 years working on model of Herod's Temple

A diagram comparing the cost of the current economic crisis with large and costly events in US history

It is exceedingly difficult to convey exactly how much we are spending on all these bailouts. Whenever I start talking trillions (versus mere billions), I get puzzled looks from people. Humans have a hard time conceptualizing any number that large. I wanted a graphic way to clearly show how astonishingly ginormous the amounts involved were. So I once again went to Jess Bachman at Wallstats. I gave him my list of expenditures (inflation adjusted of course!) and he went to work. This early Bailout Nation graphic shows the the total costs to the taxpayer of all the monies spent, lent, consumed, borrowed, printed, guaranteed, assumed or otherwise committed. It is nothing short of astonishing.

18 jun 09 / early Bailout Nation graphic shows the the total costs to the taxpayer of all the monies spent, lent, consumed, borrowed, printed, guaranteed, assumed or otherwise committed. It is nothing short of astonishing. It includes the total outlay for all the bailouts to date. In just about one short year (March 2008 - March 2009), the bailouts managed to spend far in excess of nearly every major one time expenditure of the USA, including WW1&2 (omitted from graphic), the moon shot, the New Deal, total NASA budgets (omitted from graphic), Iraq, Viet Nam and Korean wars — COMBINED.

FOTOGRAFIAS GUERRA VIETNAM

Vietnam, 35 ans après http://bit.ly/aGRgMe

Provides access to more than one million historically significant digital images, some of which can be freely downloaded.

Search images from the Library of Congress

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.

YEAH.

The Columbia Workshop is an excellent collection of Old Time Radio dramas. There is a lot of variety in the offerings, which range from Hamlet to Alice in Wonderland.

Old radio dramas

An article which analyses the Damascus blade, known for being supernaturaly strong, using scientific method.

Marianne Reibold

impressive

swords damascus steel

ben franklin timeline. interactive & cool

fact-only writing vs analytical writing

As some of you might guess, I get mixed reactions whenever I reveal that I use Wikipedia in my history classes. And not just for reading

s some of you might guess, I get mixed reactions whenever I reveal that I use Wikipedia in my history classes. And not just for reading; I actually assign my students to research and write an article for Wikipedia. And it has consistently been one of my most successful assignments. It shows students the difference between fact-only writing and analytical writing, it provides an introduction to research methods, and it gives them more insight into the working of Wikipedia, so they understand why they should or shouldn’t use it for various situations.

The world greatest director

онлайн-архив акиры куросавы

kurosawa archive

Free Kurosawa movies

Opened last year by Kyoto’s Ryukoku University, the archive honors Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s celebrated filmmaker who brought us The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru, etc. and won an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1989. What will you find here? A good 20,000 items. Screenplays, manuscripts, photos, sketches, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. You won’t find a larger Kurosawa collection on the web.

Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive

Via Henrique (FB).

Seeing the art in cartography.

In this yarn, we’ll take a closer look at inspiring stories behind the design of typefaces that you may have seen or used but didn’t know the history of. We’ll explore the nooks and crannies — both literal and figurative — of the evolving printed word. By the end, we hope you come away with a better appreciation of how things came to be.

Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993.

In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993. Shown are several of id's employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack. Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects. This video has 21 minutes of DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.

awesome

First chapter of "HTML5 for Web Developers" from Jeremy Keith.

W3CにおけるHTMLの歴史。

Chapter 1 of the book, “HTML5 for Web Designers” by Jeremy Keith

HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. Read Chapter 1 online: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/ #html5

ウェブ開発者にとって欠かせない技術をまとめた１枚の画像です。 約２０年前から現在までの流れが一望できます。 クライアント・サーバに分けて図で表しています。

hiphop samples

Love this! Too much good stuff.

Fulbright and Hogan & Hartson

"John Roberts: The Supreme Court’s stealth hard-liner." (by Jeffrey Toobin)

John Roberts and conservative activism

No More Mr. Nice Guy The Supreme Court’s stealth hard-liner. by Jeffrey Toobin

So much for candor at confirmation hearings.

When John G. Roberts, Jr., emerges from behind the red curtains and takes his place in the middle of the Supreme Court bench, he usually wears a pair of reading glasses, which he peers over to see the lawyers arguing before him. It’s an old-fashioned look for the Chief Justice of the United States, who is fifty-four, but, even with the glasses, there’s no mistaking that Roberts is the youngest person on the Court. (John Paul Stevens, the senior Associate Justice, who sits to Roberts’s right, is thirty-five years older.) Roberts’s face is unlined, his shoulders are broad and athletic, and only a few wisps of gray hair mark him as changed in any way from the judge who charmed the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing, in 2005.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Freporting%2F2009%2F05%2F25%2F090525fa_fact_toobin

"In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party."

re found this... thanks pat

You Can't Kill Michael Malloy

A man who was very hard to kill.

I had to come back with a good one

Mom always said: don't play swords in the house!!!

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search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910

Something similiar (but much smaller of course) for us?

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Library of Congress newspaper resources go way back.

Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 08:58:22 PM PDT According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) (PA-11), in mid-September of 2008, the United States of America came just three hours away from the collapse of the entire economy. In a span of 2 hours, $550 billion was drawn out of money market accounts in an electronic run on the banks.

Nevermind, this is apparently false. http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2009/02/11/kanjorski-and-the-money-market-funds-the-facts

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D PA-11)

According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) (PA-11), in mid-September of 2008, the United States of America came just three hours away from the collapse of the entire economy. In a span of 2 hours, $550 billion was drawn out of money market accounts in an electronic run on the banks. Rep. Kanjorski: "It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it."

Normandy invasion photo

Part of Operation Overloard, which began with D-Day. This is the beach after the Allies took over. (Full Wikipedia article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord )

A large picture of the Normandy beach landings, useful for stimulating student discussion and interest.

Your favorite Facebook meme is older than anyone guessed! Here it is, something I just dug up at the library: the First Folio edition of... Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me

Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me

Twitter marked its 3rd birthday this weekend and the site that Nielsen called the fastest growing social network last month shows no signs of slowing down. While active ...

This article really centres on the energy and creative flow that is coming from micro blogs, a platform to reach people faster and more reliably then ever but also seen as a business i.e. Brand monitoring. "Microblogging" in general has world-changing potential as long as the content is publicly and programmatically available. The flow of microblogging and user generators are helping marketers and academics within the media are aiding in finding resourceful people and follow creative trends and happenings.

"Twitter marked its 3rd birthday this weekend and the site that Nielsen called the fastest growing social network last month shows no signs of slowing down. While active participation by users is a great show of strength, the use of Twitter as a platform for developers and aggregate data analysis is the most exciting thing about the company."

Overview of the ways in which Twitter is fast developing into (and allowing others to develop it into) a means for journalists and others to discern leads- using data mining, and other tools...

Macclesfield Alphabet Book

hand type

They ended their lives as museum pieces, aquariums, couches, and even at the bottom of the sea. But these are the ones that stay with us.

I. Am. So. Old.

Civ V announced for Sept 2010 (when for mac? ipad?) Note: site nav is all flash, so no good on ipad.

:::SAL | :::

A look at some of the great sodas no longer with us.

A compilation of some of the highlights of "Youngme, Nowme".

maps with the actual names translated

Photo Gallery: An Etymologist's View of the World

Will something happen to my GeoCities Free or Plus account? Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites. We'll send you more details this summer. Can I prepare for GeoCities closing now? All of our GeoCities customers can continue to enjoy their sites and GeoCities services until later this year. You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone interested in a full-featured web hosting plan to consider upgrading to our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service.

GeoCities will close later this year. Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers? We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year. I'm a GeoCities customer. What's happening to my site? Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don't need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time. Will something happen to my GeoCities Free or Plus account? Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites. We'll send you more details this summer.

RT @davewiner: Yahoo: GeoCities will close later this year. http://tr.im/jxcJ [from http://twitter.com/rohitharsh/statuses/1596392118]

Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites. We'll send you more details this summer. -- I can't be the only one who's been paging through her delicious account and getting twitchy at the thought of missed geocities links going dead. ARGH. Note to self: make note of fics hosted on geocities and tag appropriately. Note to others: please to be backing your stuff up, guys, and providing links to new pages is even better.

Geocities is shutting down sometime later this year. Back-up your pages if you have anything left there, like I do. http://bit.ly/19ykHg [from http://twitter.com/sherrymain/statuses/1596677667]

check sites closing

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This is one of t he oldest modems I've ever seen. Approximately 45 years old! and this actually works. And "we're on the net with a 1964 300 baud accoustic modem!"

1964 Livermore Labs Model A acoustic modem. Still works. 300 baud.

1964 antique modem (live demo)

Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems "Model A" Acoustic Coupler Modem, live demonstration.

<chris> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

In one word: AWESOME!

The Tone Generation is Ian`s continuing radio series exploring electronic music; a personal selection drawn from his records and cds, looking at different themes and compositions in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology. Within the limitations of his collection and the available time slot, the programmes will hopefully act as an entertaining and enlightening overview of electronic music as it developed in many different areas, and will be of special interest to enthusiasts and students studying the history of analogue electronics, from the formative days up to the 1970s.

The Tone Generation is Ian`s continuing radio series exploring electronic music; looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology.

A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion and 42% "pro-choice." This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995.-The new results, obtained from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey, represent a significant shift from a year ago, when 50% were pro-choice and 44% pro-life. Prior to now, the highest percentage identifying as pro-life was 46%, in both August 2001 and May 2002.- The source of the shift in abortion views is clear in the Gallup Values and Beliefs survey. The percentage of Rep (incl inde who lean Rep) calling themselves "pro-life" rose by 10 points over the past year, from 60% to 70%, while there has been essno change in the views of Dem and Dem leaners.- Similarly, by ideology, all of the increase in pro-life sentiment is seen among self-identified conservatives and moderates;

events of 2008, People Who Mattered etc

No surprise here.

Kicking: Historypin http://bit.ly/a7IrSk - great mashup for social studies or history project. [from http://twitter.com/deangroom/statuses/15908169539]

This infographic exhibits pioneers in the field of programming, along with the history and current statistics of various programming languages. Also included are some random facts and algorithm diagrams to make the infographic more visually appealing.

Data artwork (or infographics) are employed to screen info with techniques which are more innovative than the usual text. Today, they encompass people in media, released operates, path indicators along with guides.

pagina con info interesante

RT @DesignerDepot: 100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: http://ow.ly/1Y0up

The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy followed. Words never meant very much to computers—which made them ten times more error-prone than humans. Humans expected that computer understanding of language would lead to artificially intelligent machines, inevitably and quickly. But the mispredicted words of speech recognition have rewritten that narrative. We just haven’t recognized it yet. In 2001 recognition accuracy topped out at 80%, far short of HAL-like levels of comprehension. Adding data or computing power made no difference. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University checked again in 2006 and found the situation unchanged. With human discrimination as high as 98%, the unclosed gap left little basis for conversation.

In passing, interesting-looking thing about why computers can't understand language.

link to scientific article which shows low accuracy of 2006 products

Speech recognition flatlined at 80% accuracy in 2001, and you'd be forgiven for concluding it will never get better: http://bit.ly/aoSCO0 – iconmaster (iconmaster) http://twitter.com/iconmaster/statuses/14370926269

The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy followed. Words never meant very much to computers—which made them ten times more error-prone than humans. Humans expected that computer understanding of language would lead to artificially intelligent machines, inevitably and quickly. But the mispredicted words of speech recognition have rewritten that narrative. We just haven’t recognized it yet.

Neat website which finds the path that connects two artists, or finds the top connected artists or the strongest connected artists

Los 6 grados que separan al Rock.

this rules

1) Dimitri Moor propaganda map of the USSR during the civil war, 2) circa 1490 world map used by Columbus to garner support for his expedition, 3) earliest known Chinese globe from 1623, 4) Waldseemuller world map, first naming the American continent, 5) Google Earth ("Google Earth presents a world in which the area of most concern to you can be at the centre, and which - with mapped content overlaid - can contain whatever you think is important. Almost for the first time, the ability to create an accurate map has been placed in the hands of everyone, and it has transformed the way we view the world."), 6) 1889 map of London poverty, 7) post-Revolutionary War map establishing USA-Canada border, 8) Harry Beck's London tube map, 9) the Peters equal-area projection world map, and 10) a late medieval world map that "marks the birth of English patriotism".

CHINESE GLOBE

Beta program to digitize records.

You’ve probably passed it a million times in your travels through downtown Manhattan. Anyone who has ever visited J&R Row or hit the Starbucks on the opposite corner for a post-Brooklyn-Bridge-walk bathroom break has probably noticed its twin towers, and perhaps wondered how much its wealthy tenants must pay to live behind its beautiful brick and terra-cotta facade.

5 Beekman Street doesn’t have any tenants. In fact, it’s completely empty, essentially abandoned, and has been for a decade, with much of the interior shuttered since 1940…

"Discovered in Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010 - wholly inaccessible so please don't ask the staff! These are official photographs so please credit London Underground. "

Hidden posters of Notting Hill Gate Tube station, 2010 - a set on Flickr

Discovered in Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010 - wholly inaccessible so please don't ask the staff! These are official photographs so please credit London Underground.

Base de données des monstres de la mythologie japonaise.

怪異・妖怪画像データベース 怪異・妖怪画像データベース Copyright (c)2010- International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. All rights reserved. はてなブックマーク - 怪異・妖怪画像データベース はてなブックマークに追加 gin-oi2 gin-oi2 データベース, **お役立ち, *webサービス いつか、役に立つときが来るかも…

Aufnahmen vom D-Day

Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Relembrando o dia D, 66 anos atrás.

The Big Picture's photos of D-Day. My grandfather landed on Omaha Beach a few days behind the main invasion, treating casualties from both sides as the front advanced. I cannot imagine what this was like, for him or for those he was treating who led the invasion.

aboutprogramming04.jpg (imagem JPEG, 1200×3000 pixels)

the world of programming infographic

cool infographic on world cup ball

A look at game balls from 1930 to 2010.

View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $1.97 (Consumer); $30 (Pro).

archive of "over 57000 videos and 7 million photos" especially of the mid-20th century (1930s to '60s) - "offering imediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $1.97 (Consumer); $30 (Pro)."

AndaBien - Evolution Timeline

To scale.

The beauty of writing systems is that each has something unique from which to draw inspiration. Two weeks ago, in the first part of this article, we covered Arabic and East-Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) and a few Indic scripts (Devanagari, Thai and Tibetan).

街頭博物館，透過iphone探測你在倫敦街頭的位置，展示昔日當地的歷史圖片/影片。

A nice app made by Brothers and sisters for the Museum of London http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/may/streetmuseum-app

Museum of London

Photos from 30 years ago showing the devestating effects of the Mount St Helens eruption, the thousands of trees all aligned on the ground are astonishing

LETTER FROM MOSCOW about Chatroulette. Andrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow, has a variety of explanations for why he created the Web site Chatroulette. The most reliable version, however, centers on a shop called Russian Souvenirs, where Ternovskiy started working in 2008, selling Soviet paraphernalia…

ndrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow, has a variety of explanations for why he cr

perfil do criador do chat roulette

Click on the timeline's icons or on the map's icons to learn more about each place represented on the map. The map changes as you progress through the timeline. For example, the 3500BC map represents only five places while the 1871AD map highlights places all over the globe.

The aim of the TimeMap of World History is to "communicate history in a truly engaging way". To do this, we use a combination of timelines, maps, and encyclopedia entries merged together to create both authoritative content and an enjoyable user experience. The result is a unique interactive guide through history, stopping at each and every civilization, empire and country along the way.

A combination of timelines, maps, and encyclopedia entries merged together to create both authoritative content and an enjoyable user experience. The result is a unique interactive guide through history, stopping at each and every civilization, empire and country along the way.

Mapa Histórico del mundo. Interactivo.

Features interactive timeline

TimeMaps is best described as a mash-up of encyclopedia, timeline, and map elements. TimeMaps' world map is designed as an overview of the development of the world's societies. The map's timeline begins in 3500BC and concludes in 2005AD. Click on the timeline's icons or on the map's icons to learn more about each place represented on the map. The map changes as you progress through the timeline. For example, the 3500BC map represents only five places while the 1871AD map highlights places all over the globe.

imeMaps is best described as a mash-up of encyclopedia, timeline, and map elements

Site showing Tarkovsky's beautiful polaroids

It is not widely known that Tarkovsky, whose films often seem to be composed as a montage of still photos, in a period effectively took photos with a Polaroid camera. These photos, taken at home and in Italy, in spite of all their technical imperfections bear witness to the same way of seeing and visual world as the great films. A selection from these photos was first published in Italy in 2006, and recently a Russian photo blog digitized all the pictures. The photos below are taken from there.

RT @psychemedia: Cf. London museum's historical photo overlays of streetview app http://bit.ly/b0lgyB Historypin lets you do similar htt ...

This is awesome.

They mean 25 horribly awesome vintage ads

Since the 50's, a lot has changed in way of women's rights and their duties in and out of the house. I highly doubt any company could get away with phrases like

Sorry, forgot to add the link: http://www.icanhasinternets.com/2010/05/25-horribly-sexist-vintage-ads/ – dave trott (davetrott) http://twitter.com/davetrott/statuses/16293067134

25 Horribly Sexist Vintage Ads - http://bit.ly/cROHMZ via @sarahisback

http://newevolutiondesigns.com/75-shocking-advertisements http://newevolutiondesigns.com/30-amazing-stop-motion-videos http://www.evilsunday.com/evil-creatures-night/ http://dornob.com/design/apartments/ http://imgur.com/gallery/wyxVv http://www.toptenz.net/ http://2leep.com/ http://www.crystalkiss.com/

Secret South African papers expose of which Israel told her i would sell nuclear warheads on the apartheid plan, providing the very first established documentary evidence of your california's possession involving nuclear items.

Key Southerly Africa files uncover that Israel wanted to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the initial established documentary proof of the particular state's ownership of nuclear items.

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.

The documents show both sides met on 31 March 1975. Polakow-Suransky writes in his book published in the US this week, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's secret alliance with apartheid South Africa. At the talks Israeli officials "formally offered to sell South Africa some of the nuclear-capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal". Among those attending the meeting was the South African military chief of staff, Lieutenant General RF Armstrong. He immediately drew up a memo in which he laid out the benefits of South Africa obtaining the Jericho missiles but only if they were fitted with nuclear weapons.

History of graphic design. Site is thesis project of Dominic Flask.

Advertising, Identity and Branding, Illustration, Editorial Design, Typography, Infographics, Packaging, Posters, Motion Graphics, Interactive Design, Socially Responsible, and a Legend.

THE ORIGIN OF IRRITATION

would be a pretty harmless easter egg

Where did the <blink> tag come from? This article explains how and why the tag originated.

FutureWave Software

While the phrase “founding fathers” is often used in conjunction with men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, we wanted the think about the phrase on the global level. And what is more global than the world wide web? Thus, this holiday, we’re taking a look at 10 individuals who have been instrumental in helping to shape the world wide web and the culture of the Internet as we know it today.

"Multimedia artwork "2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*"

2053 この数字わかりますか？　1945から1998の間に地球上で起こされた核爆発の回数です。どこの国がどのくらい核爆発をどこでおこなったかを見事なアート動画で見せてくれるISAO HASHIMOTO の作品をご覧ください。

2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.

"Multimedia artwork "2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*"

2053 この数字わかりますか？　1945から1998の間に地球上で起こされた核爆発の回数です。どこの国がどのくらい核爆発をどこでおこなったかを見事なアート動画で見せてくれるISAO HASHIMOTO の作品をご覧ください。

"Multimedia artwork "2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*"

2053 この数字わかりますか？　1945から1998の間に地球上で起こされた核爆発の回数です。どこの国がどのくらい核爆発をどこでおこなったかを見事なアート動画で見せてくれるISAO HASHIMOTO の作品をご覧ください。

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com http://is.gd/dmfqC

Nice collection of web sites for creating timelines for use by students and teachers.

Top 10 Sites for Creating

Top 10 Sites for Creating Timelines by David Kapuler

Mashable hat eine wunderbare Infografik ausgegraben, die die Anfänge von Social Media im Februar 2003 bis heute nachzeichnen:

“we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.”

How do you measure programmer productivity? When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put "-2000" on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form, and he gladly complied.

Mac Paint Source Code FYI. My favorite all time program! Wz making Mac Paint gradients bfr my current Photoshop Gradients

For those who want to see how it worked "under the hood", we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.

"For those who want to see how it worked "under the hood", we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library."

Computer History Museum receives MacPaint source code. http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/ Great, clean Pascal code. – Alexander O'Neill (alxp) http://twitter.com/alxp/statuses/18984263345

MacPaint のソースコードがコンピュータ歴史博物館に寄贈されて、非商用目的ならば閲覧できるようになりました。MacPaint については Knuth が過去に書かれた最高のプログラムと評したそうです。身近で興味のある人はいたら輪読もいいかも。

Bill Atkinson's MacPaint and QuickDraw source code, in Pascal and assembler.

at the Computer History Museum

こういうの好き // なぜ，/var や /etc が /etc や /cfg というディレクトリ名ではないのか？ http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ytakano/20100715/1279219401 – えふしん (fshin2000) http://twitter.com/fshin2000/statuses/19038677901

「Unixを使っていると，/usr が全然ユーザー用じゃなくどう見てもシステムのための物だったり，/etc が事実上設定ファイル置き場となっていたり，/var がログファイル置き場となっていたりと，名が体を現していなくて奇妙な感覚を覚える．もっと分かりやすい名前の付け方があったんじゃないかと，Unixユーザーならば誰もが思うはずだが，これに対する解答がredditに投稿されており，その内容が非常に面白かったので，軽く翻訳してみた．」

Wow - MacPaint was < 80k of code.

For those who want to see how it worked "under the hood", we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.

Computer History Museum receives MacPaint source code. http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/ Great, clean Pascal code. – Alexander O'Neill (alxp) http://twitter.com/alxp/statuses/18984263345

MacPaint のソースコードがコンピュータ歴史博物館に寄贈されて、非商用目的ならば閲覧できるようになりました。MacPaint については Knuth が過去に書かれた最高のプログラムと評したそうです。身近で興味のある人はいたら輪読もいいかも。

話してるのは戦争が始まる2年前の話。

話してるのは戦争が始まる2年前の話。

Album Flickr de Cartazes Antigos

This article needs a great big "citation needed" slapped on it. Yes, people need to think about what they post on the web, but no, that stuff will not stay around "forever." If anything, the web suffers from the opposite problem: memory loss.

"We’ve known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent — and public — digital files. The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew; to overcome our checkered pasts....It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances — no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you’ve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you."

Use a lot of thought and caution before posting to the web...it never forgets and is a critical part of what others may see about your one-time identity...even if it was 40 years ago!

La Red significa "el fin del olvido". Súper interesante artículo en el NYTimes. http://nyti.ms/anOZh7 (para los que gustan de la tecno y...

By Jeffrey Rosen

Interesting article about how the Internet remembers everything we put in it and how it would be better both for us and our society if it forgot with time (like humans).

When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever. With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from vi

How best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing—where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever.

thx, lg :) RT @AmirKassaei: Great Read! NYTimes: The Web Means the End of Forgetting http://nyti.ms/anOZh7

NYTimes: The Web Means the End of Forgetting http://nyti.ms/anOZh7

The digital age is facing its first existential crisis: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.

Album Flickr de Cartazes Antigos

Parisians call it a gruyère. For hundreds of years, the catacombs under the city have been a conduit, sanctuary, and birthplace for its secrets. The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables’ Jean Valjean both haunted these tunnels, striking students descended in 1968, as did patriots during the Second World War. The Nazis visited too, building a bunker in the maze below the 6th arrondissement. Honeycombed across 1,900 acres of the city, the vast majority of the tunnels are not strictly speaking “catacombs.” They house no bones. Limestone (and, to the north of the city, gypsum) quarries, these are the mines that built Paris. The oldest date back two thousand years to Roman settlers, but most were excavated in the construction boom of the late Middle Ages. Riddling the Left Bank, these tunnels were at first beyond the city’s southern limits. But as Paris’s population grew, so did the city—and soon whole neighbourhoods were built on this infirm ground.

this is really, really cool. On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema sixty feet beneath Paris.

RT @ebertchicago: The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock: The Secret City Beneath Paris. http://bit.ly/93gYTB

crazy french secret society does cool things in the catacombs, doesn't want publicity, fame, attention

Afghanistan: The war logs [guardian.co.uk] http://goo.gl/XHW4

intro on data visualization

Introduction to, and history of, datavisualization

Data visualization is a pretty literal term that means, quite simply, the visual representation of quantitative data. In this course we’ll learn common techniques for visualizing data, as well as some strategies for managing information digitally. But first, a brief history.

A brief history of visualization http://bit.ly/a2YB4q #datavisualization #dataviz

Data Visualization

Although visualization hasn’t been widely recognized as a discipline in and of itself until fairly recently, today’s most popular forms date back nearly two centuries. Geographical exploration, mathematics, and popularized history spurred the creation of early maps, graphs, and timelines as far back as the 1600s; but William Playfair is widely credited as the inventor of the modern chart, having created the first widely distributed line and bar charts in his Commercial and Political Atlas of 1786, and what is generally considered to be the first pie chart in his Statistical Breviary, published in 1801.